 In the context of social reality, the individual therefore measures one’s “I” by what constitutes the Others and by what they have achieved and failed to achieve in the social world. The experience of the social world by an “I” thereby justifies and corroborates itself (as a being-in-the-world) through the experience of the others with whom the “I” interacts. The possibilities of  individuals and their subsequent understanding of themselves can be broadened after their encounter with the “others” in the social world common to all “I’s”. However, Ortega also perceives the shared social world, in several aspects as constricting, instead of  expanding, the individual’s possibilities. As an empirically finite being whose radical reality continually confronts the possibility of death, the individual, for Ortega, can make efforts to transcend the determinacy of one’s being by making, existentially, free choices and decisions. Conversely, the individual, as a social,  empirically finite being who, interrelated with other individuals, finds it difficult to transcend and recoil from the process of the reciprocity of human interaction in the context of social reality and, hence, becomes conditioned (by society) to act with a view toward what others have done and currently are doing. Once given this social world that may be interpreted to signify the possible realm of action for all of us (as “all men find themselves among men”), in Ortega’s view, the individual must discriminate between what constitutes the possibilities of  Others—humans in general in the social world—and what constitutes the possibilities inherent in the uniqueness of his own finite being. “What is yours”, he states,