 In fields such as anthropology, ethnography, and sociology, and in the philosophical areas that reflect on these disciplines (primarily, the philosophy of social science), questions related to the epistemic value of perspective-taking gave rise to debates about whether it is necessary to immerse oneself in a society in order to understand it adequately. According to some, the answer is “yes”: if I want to understand a society or culture, I need to understand it from the participants’ perspective, with special sensitivity to the concepts and rules that guide the participants’ perspective, even if only implicitly (see especially Winch 1958, 1964). It is then sometimes claimed that one can only really grasp or master these concepts by participating in the relevant form of life. As the ethnographer James Spradley writes: