Abstraction is constitutive of the this, not a separate act added to it

Evidence

Thus the pure green comes to the “green-roughness-light” on the ground of the future as its meaning. We apprehend here the meaning of what we have called abstraction. The existent does not possess its essence as a present quality. It is even the negation of essence; the green never is green. But the essence comes from the ground of the future to the existent, as a meaning which is never given and which forever haunts it. It is the pure correlate of the pure ideality of my negation. In this sense there is no such thing as an operation of abstraction if we mean by that a psychological affirmative act of selection effected by a constituted mind. Far from abstracting certain qualities in terms of things, we must on the contrary view abstraction as the original mode of being of the for-itself, necessary in order that there may be, in general, things and a world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 607 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Every conscious existence exists as consciousness of existing. We understand now why the first consciousness of consciousness is not positional; it is because it is one with the consciousness of which it is consciousness. At one stroke it determines itself as consciousness of perception and as perception. The necessity of syntax has compelled us hitherto to speak of the “non-positional consciousness of self.” But we can no longer use this expression in which the “of self” still evokes the idea of knowledge. (Henceforth we shall put the “of” inside parentheses to show that it merely satisfies a grammatical requirement.) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 134 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Temporality is not a universal time containing all beings and in particular human realities. Neither is it a law of development which is imposed on being from without. Nor is it being. But it is the intra-structure of the being which is its own nihilation—that is, the mode of being peculiar to being-for-itself. The For-itself is the being which has to be its being in the diasporatic form of Temporality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 485 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Abstraction is the for-itself’s original mode of being, not a mental act — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 607; Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 134; Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 485

Broader Connections

• Abstraction is the for-itself’s original mode of being, not a mental act #corroborates (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 607
• Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 134
• Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 485