Whether this term "person" can be common to the three persons?

❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that this term "person" cannot be common to the three persons. For nothing is common to the three persons but the essence. But this term "person" does not signify the essence directly. Therefore it is not common to all three.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, the common is the opposite to the incommunicable. But the very meaning of person is that it is incommunicable; as appears from the definition given by Richard of St. Victor (Question [29], Article [3], ad 4). Therefore this term "person" is not common to all the three persons.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, if the name "person" is common to the three, it is common either really, or logically. But it is not so really; otherwise the three persons would be one person; nor again is it so logically; otherwise person would be a universal. But in God there is neither universal nor particular; neither genus nor species, as we proved above (Question [3], Article [5]). Therefore this term 'person' is not common to the three.