The phrase "a person competent" is not correct in standard English usage.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing someone's abilities or qualifications, but it typically requires a modification for clarity, such as "a competent person."
Example: "In our organization, we value a competent person who can handle complex tasks efficiently."
Alternatives: "an able individual" or "a skilled person."
That is not to dismiss the simplest lesson of this incident: President Trump has given an important job to a person not competent to carry it out.
There are no "degrees of being a person" among competent adults.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is agreed that we should respect a person's competent request for medical assistance with dying (e.g., so as to enable her to achieve her autonomously chosen goal of an easeful death).
Moore, in a letter to McLane, noted that sending an agent to Europe to gather technology had been discussed in the past, but proposals had foundered over the difficulty of finding a person both competent enough to undertake the trip successfully and not too busy to spend a year or more in Europe.
These cognitive abilities are prerequisites for making autonomous decisions and an assessment results in concluding if a person is competent or not.
The only apparent thing, he said, "is that this is a person who's competent.
Exemptions involve pleas that a person is not competent to function as a morally responsible agent, such as, "She did not understand what she was doing.
They express their difficulties with being either a person who is competent and autonomous, or a patient who is incompetent and dependent, and appear unable to combine those.
The essential elements of informed consent to research include the provision of relevant information to a person who is competent to make a decision, and who is situated so as to be able to do so voluntarily.
But then, there will be a person just slightly less competent than the second, and then another just slightly less competent than the third, and quickly, medically assisted dying is being practised on patients of whom it would be very difficult indeed to claim that they are competent.
