 The first premise of the argument from analogy is, in effect, the Cartesian starting point: one is secure in the knowledge that one has of one’s own conscious experience. These phenomenologists reject this starting point. In its place Husserl (1931) adopts the starting point of embodied subjectivity, Heidegger (1927) insists that the structure of human experience is such as to involve a relation to the world and to others (Dasein is essentially characterized by Mitsein), and Merleau-Ponty holds that “I find myself already situated and involved in a physical and social world” (1945 [2003: 419]). Sartre takes things further and draws attention to the extent to which the encounter with another is an encounter with someone who takes me as an object (1943).