In the passage above, Lear recognizes how our pretenses do satisfy different needs, as our capacity for pretending opens up in a myriad way. In this sense, we might say that our pretenses allow us to put ourselves forward in different existential situations – that is, different “environments” which we come to inhabit in our existence. Accordingly, as they are attached to different situations as different ways of being in the world, my pretenses must be non-equivalent to one another. In other words, different situations will come to me bearing a need for a pretense to be produced on my part, in order to come to inhabit that situation. However, as situations differ from one another, then the needs they bear will be different in what they ask