ABSTRACT
The ‘individuality’ of individual persons is something we all recognize. We can recognize our friends, and distinguish them from ‘just anybody’. Perhaps we can even recognize ourselves. By the operation of the schema of style outlined above, we can first distinguish objective phenomena, recorded as sensory data, and identify them as distinctively human ways of behaving. This is already a stylistic distinction. We can then proceed to a further step, the particular ‘way of being human’ characteristic of our old friend Charlie, for instance, and no one else. Charlie is distinguished from just anybody by perceived stylistic differences. The bundle of phenomena we call Charlie differs from any other identified bundle, if only in terms of space and time: no other person can occupy the same space at the same time as someone else; so even if almost all the sensory signals were the same for two individuals, they would still be distinguished stylistically as two (and not one) by position in space and time.
