One might thus conclude that there is no way to be true to what one is, because there is nothing that one is. However, such a negative conclusion would be reached only by someone who embraced from the outset the “spirit of seriousness” Sartre sets out to attack. Seriousness would lead us to think that there is simply a fact of the matter about a person: the person is either a believer or he is not. But, as Linda A. Bell (1989: 45) has noted, there is another possibility. If one rejects the spirit of seriousness, one might lucidly acknowledge that, as transcendence, one’s belief is always in question and so not really a secure belief. Yet, at the same time, one might also recognize that, as facticity, one genuinely holds a belief, and that the belief is central to one’s being as an engaged agent in this situation. In Sartre’s convoluted style of formulation, “he would be right if he recognized himself as a being that is what it is not and is not what it is” (Bell 1989: 45). On this account, I believe, but I also acknowledge my ability to retract the belief, since nothing is ever fixed in stone.