 The ideas that mental states can be perceived in the gestures of others and that the perceiver does not live through the other’s experience are the building blocks of early phenomenology’s theory of social cognition. In particular, Stein (1917) puts them at the basis of her articulated view of empathy, according to which the perception of the other’s mental state is only the first step in the cognitive process that leads to a fuller understanding of the other. After one is struck, as it were, by the other’s mental state in perception, one has the possibility to put oneself in the other’s shoes and, thereby, to explicate the experience (e.g., by appreciating the intentional object of the state). In a third step, the empathizer can gain a piece of propositional knowledge by forming the thought that subject x lives through a given experience (see also Dullstein 2013).