An object’s objectivity rests on a principle binding its infinite appearances

Evidence

It is an impossibility on principle for the terms of an infinite series to exist all at the same time before consciousness, along with the real absence of all these terms except for the one which is the foundation of objectivity. If present these impressions—even in infinite number—would dissolve in the subjective; it is their absence which gives them objective being. Thus the being of the object is pure non-being. It is defined as a lack. It is that which escapes, that which by definition will never be given, that which offers itself only in fleeting and successive profiles. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 149 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Thus through a continuous degradation, the bond of creation is maintained between subject and object. To have is first to create. And the bond of ownership which is established then is a bond of continuous creation; the object possessed is inserted by me into the total form of my environment; its existence is determined by my situation and by its integration in that same situation. My lamp is not only that electric bulb, that shade, that wrought iron stand; it is a certain power of lighting this desk, these books, this table; it is a certain luminous nuance of my work at night in connection with my habits of reading or writing late; it is animated, colored, defined by the use which I make of it; it is that use and exists only through it. If isolated from my desk, from my work, and placed in a lot of objects on the floor of a salesroom, my lamp is radically extinguished; it is no longer my lamp; instead, merely a member of the class of lamps, it has returned to its original matter. Thus I am responsible for the existence of my possessions in the human order. Through ownership I raise them up to a certain type of functional being; and my simple life appears to me as creative exactly because by its continuity it perpetuates the quality of being possessed in each of the objects in my possession. I draw the collection of my surroundings into being along with myself. If they are taken from me, they die as my arm would die if it were severed from me. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1371 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Objectness is the state of being an object, distinct from objectivity; Possession is a continuous creation that grants objects their functional being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1371; For idealism the object’s objective being is constituted by absence, not plenitude — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 149 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• For idealism the object’s objective being is constituted by absence, not plenitude #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 149
• Objectness is the state of being an object, distinct from objectivity #expands (0.80)
• Possession is a continuous creation that grants objects their functional being. #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1371