 Moreover, a long string of influential thinkers—starting roughly with Giambattista Vico and continuing through figures such Wilhelm Dilthey and R. G. Collingwood—answer this question affirmatively. Distinctive abilities and perhaps methodologies do come on the scene when we try to understand human beings, at least when we try to understand them in a particular way. In broad strokes, the idea is that there is a kind of understanding of other human beings that we can only acquire by reconstructing their perspectives—in some sense, “from within” those perspectives and according to their own terms (cf. Ismael 2018).