Sentence examples for of existing persons from inspiring English sources

Lindemann worries, furthermore, that such extraordinary measures help enforce an image of the fetus as already a person with a claim on resources as large as or even larger than that of existing persons.

Using logistic regression of existing person-level hospital records to develop a model that predicts the probability of readmission to hospital within 30 days.

However, what many people find disturbing is the idea of creating a genetic duplicate of an existing person, or a person who has existed.

Furthermore, can presently existing persons, in making such decisions, be guided by the interests of future persons?

Moreover, if the embryo from which such cells were derived happened to be a clone of an existing person, they would not be recognised as foreign by the immune system of their progenitor and might thus be used as treatments for diseases that require the replacement of a particular, lost cell type.

First, the particular reasons which ground the right of the no longer existing person imply reasons for the validity of the surviving duty.

Selection of transition events from existing person links relies on two factors – the identification of the correct person (i.e. the assumption that the person links are correct) followed by selecting the correct pair or sequence of events for that person.

According to such a threshold notion of harm an action harms a person only if, as a consequence of that action, the (then existing) person falls below a normatively defined threshold (see McMahan 1998, 223 29; Shiffrin 1999).

"For an existing person, the presence of bad things is bad and the presence of good things is good," Benatar explained.

This is assuming that to compare an existing person's current state of well-being with the state of this person had the person not been conceived is to compare an existing person's current state with this person's "never existing".

With existing person re-identification systems, probe images of individual persons are treated independently.