 A central tenet of the humanistic tradition is that when an agent has a first-person perspective on the world, there is value in trying to “take up” or “assume” that perspective, rather than simply trying to map that agent’s perspective from a detached, third-person perspective. Abraham Lincoln for instance, could presumably be understood from a third-person, detached perspective by a psychologist adept at mapping the various ways in which Lincoln’s beliefs and desires, hopes and fears, seemed to depend upon and relate to one another. What the humanistic tradition says is that even if the psychologist were to do this exquisitely, so that all of these relationships were accurately plotted, there would still be an important sort of understanding missing—an understanding of what it was like to be Lincoln from the inside, or to regard the world as he regarded it, at least in part.