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Person vs. Idea — What's the Difference?

Person vs. Idea — What's the Difference?

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Person

A person (plural people or persons) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts.In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes.

Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.

Person

A living human. Often used in combination
Chairperson.
Salesperson. See Usage Note at chairman.

Idea

A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
Recently, the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on
It's a good idea to do some research before you go

Person

An individual of specified character
A person of importance.
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Idea

The aim or purpose
I took a job with the idea of getting some money together

Person

The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.

Idea

(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

Person

The living body of a human
Searched the prisoner's person.

Idea

Something, such as a thought or conception, that is the product of mental activity.

Person

Physique and general appearance.

Idea

An opinion, conviction, or principle
Has some strange political ideas.

Person

(Law) A human, corporation, organization, partnership, association, or other entity deemed or construed to be governed by a particular law.

Idea

A plan, purpose, or goal
She started school with the idea of becoming a doctor.

Person

(Christianity) Any of the three separate individualities of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as distinguished from the essence of the Godhead that unites them.

Idea

The gist or significance
The idea of the article is that investing in green technology can save you money in the long run.

Person

Any of three groups of pronoun forms with corresponding verb inflections that distinguish the speaker (first person), the individual addressed (second person), and the individual or thing spoken of (third person).

Idea

A sense that something can happen; a notion or expectation
They have this idea that we can just drop what we're doing and go to the park.

Person

Any of the different forms or inflections expressing these distinctions.

Idea

(Music) A theme or motif.

Person

A character or role, as in a play; a guise
"Well, in her person, I say I will not have you" (Shakespeare).

Idea

In the philosophy of Plato, a non-physical form or archetype to which beings in phenomenal reality correspond only as imperfect replicas.

Person

An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being.
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.

Idea

In the philosophy of Kant, a concept of reason that is transcendent but nonempirical.

Person

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.

Idea

In the philosophy of Hegel, absolute truth; the complete and ultimate product of reason.

Person

(Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.

Idea

(Obsolete) A mental image of something remembered.

Person

Any sentient or socially intelligent being.

Idea

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

Person

(in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.

Idea

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

Person

(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).

Idea

(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

Person

(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.
I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.

Idea

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.

Person

The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.

Idea

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

Person

(law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.

Idea

A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
I have an idea of how we might escape.

Person

The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

Idea

A purposeful aim or goal; intent
Yeah, that's the idea.

Person

(grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.

Idea

A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.

Person

(biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

Idea

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

Person

To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Idea

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
Being the right idea of your fatherBoth in your form and nobleness of mind.
This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.

Person

To man, to supply with staff or crew.

Idea

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.

Person

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler.
No man can long put on a person and act a part.
To bear rule, which was thy partAnd person, hadst thou known thyself aright.
How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!

Idea

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea.

Person

The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.
If it assume my noble father's person.
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.

Idea

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
What is now "idea" for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!"

Person

A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection.

Idea

A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work.

Person

A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

Idea

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

Person

A parson; the parish priest.

Idea

A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
Thence to behold this new-created world,The addition of his empire, how it showedIn prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,Answering his great idea.

Person

Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.

Idea

The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;
It was not a good idea
The thought never entered my mind

Person

One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.

Idea

A personal view;
He has an idea that we don't like him

Person

A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.

Idea

An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;
An estimate of what it would cost
A rough idea how long it would take

Person

To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Idea

Your intention; what you intend to do;
He had in mind to see his old teacher
The idea of the game is to capture all the pieces

Person

A human being;
There was too much for one person to do

Idea

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;
The theme is announced in the first measures
The accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it

Person

A person's body (usually including their clothing);
A weapon was hidden on his person

Person

A grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms;
Stop talking about yourself in the third person

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