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The text deals with the role of particular examples in our understanding, especially in the encounters with unfamiliar cases that may require us to expand our concepts. I try to show that Peter Winch’s reflections on the nature of understanding can provide the foundations for such an account. Understanding consists in a response informed by a background network of particular canonical examples. It is against this background that the distinction between appropriate differentiated reactions and misplaced ones makes sense. To accommodate applications of known concepts (such as love, or humour) to unfamiliar cases, particular examples are needed that invite the recipient in a certain direction of understanding, while providing a “closure” against arbitrary misor re-interpretations. This capacity has to do with a capacity or incapacity to convey the sense of seriousness of an example dealing with the lives of the persons (or characters) concerned. How does one encounter an example of humility or humour; what happens here? What enables me to recognise and prevents me from misrecognising, or misresponding to what I have in front of me? I will try to discuss these questions in the light of Peter Winch’s work. Other authors working in a similar philosophical spirit, informed by Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as Rush Rhees or R. W. Beardsmore (as well as Wittgenstein himself), will at times join the discussion as

"Give Me an Example": Peter Winch and Learning from the Particular