Sartre’s notion of transcendence is closely linked with the idea of freedom. Humans are free in the sense that they have the ability to choose how they are going to interpret things, and in these interpretations they are deciding how things are to count or matter. We constitute the world through our freedom to the extent that our ways of taking things determine how reality will be sorted out and matter to us. At the same time, we constitute ourselves through our own choices: though the facticity of my situation creates some constraints on my possible self-interpretations, it is always up to me to decide the meaning of those constraints, and this means that what I take to be limitations are in fact produced by my own interpretations or meaning-giving activities. Such limitations are grasped in light of antecedent commitments, on the background of which situations becomes intelligible, as affording certain actions and/or modes of evaluation. It is our antecedent commitments that shape our world, making situations and objects intelligible as threatening or favorable, easy or full of obstacles, or more generally, as affording certain actions (Sartre 1992a [1943]: 489). Our engagements provide a hermeneutic structure within which our situations and motives become comprehensible and reveal themselves in the way situations appear to us—as significant, requiring our attention, etc. (1992a [1943]: 485).