The phrase "a person existing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the state of being or existence of an individual.
Example: "In philosophy, the concept of a person existing raises questions about identity and consciousness."
Alternatives: "an existing individual" or "a being that exists".
I'd allow myself to buy into my own storytelling because it's easier to write intrusive, speculatory and sometimes hurtful things when the subject is a character in a story rather than it is a person existing in the real world; it's easier to listen to the phone messages of Alan Partridge than it is Steve Coogan.
What is it for a person existing at one time to be identical to a person existing at another?
Assuming that a human vegetable is not a person, this is not a case involving a person existing at one time and a person existing at another time.
We have a person existing at one time and a person existing at another, and the question is what is necessary and sufficient for them to be one person rather than two.
Both psychological-continuity and brute-physical views agree that there is something that it takes for us to persist that there are informative, nontrivial necessary and sufficient conditions for a person existing at one time to be a thing existing at another time.
In its 18th-century version, this theory about the inner life paralleled emerging scientific theories about the outer world: it said that a happy person existing alone without exchanging the energy of benevolence with other people is inconceivable, like a celestial body orbiting around nothing.
But this reconciliation, he argued, cannot occur as long as God continues to be thought of as an individual person existing independently of the world.
To assess student attitudes, beliefs and confidence regarding interaction with an obese person, existing relevant surveys from the medical literature were reviewed [ 9, 25- 27].
One of the constitutive achievements based upon my lifeworldly determined practice of act-ascription is my self-image as a full-fledged person existing as a psycho-physical element of the objective, spatio-temporal order.
"I remember thinking right then, If I can reel in a four-hundred-pound fish, why can't I reel out a four-hundred-pound person?" Existing escape equipment — parachutes, cables attached to building-mounted cranes, inflatable airplane slides — struck him as inadequate, too complicated, or prone to failure.
"I remember thinking right then, If I can reel in a four-hundred-pound fish, why can't I reel out a four-hundred-pound person?" Existing escape equipment parachutes, cables attached to building-mounted cranes, inflatable airplane slides struck him as inadequate, too complicated, or prone to failure.
