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person

Legally, any natural or artificial person, which would include corporations, partnerships, associations, and limited liability companies. If it is important to distinguish among the “persons” who may do something or who are prohibited from doing something, relevant contracts, leases, or statutes will usually define the term.

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To summarize Hoffman's and Falk's approaches to the persons issues in the traditional blessing formula: for the sake of consistency, Hoffman drops the third person reference to God and retains only the second person; for the sake of eliminating the masculine-gendered references to God, Falk completely eliminates the second person, and indeed, personhood altogether for God.
The implied first-person speakers address God in the second person (You) and invoke blessing upon God.
Who's Blessing whom?: Transcendence, agency, and gender in Jewish prayer
My annotations describe the impression I gained from the description that I received of the use of the second person, and they may therefore be incorrect.
Metafictional discussion of the use of the second person.
Second-person narrative: a bibliography
As a didactic evocation of what the feelings of the addressee at a given point should be when following the author's instructions to imagine herself in a certain situation, the passage works in an entirely convincing manner, and it prefigures the possibility of extended mind projection in the second person.
Gyle," in which the life of the saint is actually told in the second person.
Introduction: second-person narrative and related issues
Max Frisch's "Burleske" - the narrative prose sketch from which his famous play Biedermann und die Brandstifter developed - is written in the second person, and it describes the bourgeois mentality to a T.
Such play with the ambiguity of the second person typically occurs at the beginning of texts, where - as we have noted - the reader appears to be addressed in person or as a generalized "you.
Second-person narrative as a test-case for narratology: the limits of realism

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