Also in contrast to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty argues that I am not fixed by the accusing gaze of the other: One knows the other not only in what he suffers from him, but more generally as a witness, who can be challenged because he is also himself accused, because he is not a pure gaze upon pure being any more than I am, because his views and my own are in advance inserted into a system of partial perspectives, referred to one same world in which we coexist and where our views intersect.