  But radical freedom is ambiguous, as it must work with a facticity (a term the existentialists adopted from Heidegger), viz., a set of given factors (physical, social and so on) that it has not created. In the case of the artist, the ambiguity resides already in the decision and the passion to become an artist. Although a set of genetic and social preconditions influences that decision, it is equally the product of an individual decision in that specific situation.