"nonperson" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, Michael C. Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying, page 146:",
          "text": "As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson, forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?",
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          "ref": "1994, Lisa J. McIntyre, Law in the Sociological Enterprise, page 92:",
          "text": "Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson.",
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          "ref": "1998, John E. Tropman, Does America Hate the Poor?, page 6:",
          "text": "How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a \"lessperson,\" and then a nonperson.",
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        "Not a real person; a subhuman."
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          "sense": "not a real person; a subhuman",
          "word": "epähenkilö"
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          "sense": "not a real person; a subhuman",
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          "ref": "1995, Roger K. R. Thompson, “Natural and Relational Concepts in Animals”, in Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science, page 179:",
          "text": "Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.",
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          "ref": "2001, Eric T. Olson, “A Compound of Two Substances”, in Soul, Body, and Survival, page 77:",
          "text": "No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Ritva Laury, “Interaction, grounding, and third-person referential forms”, in Frank Brisard, editor, Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference, page 85:",
          "text": "For example, Benveniste [...] discusses the connection of first- and second-person pronouns with the speech situation, and even goes as far as to claim that the third person is a nonperson, since the referents of third-person pronouns are not speech-act participants.",
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          "text": "How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a \"lessperson,\" and then a nonperson.",
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      "word": "epähenkilö"
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