Becoming is possible only because being and its modes are heterogeneous

Evidence

If I am not what I pronounced myself to be, this is not because of a slight cleavage between judicative thought and being, not because of a retardation between the judgment and the fact, but because on principle in my immediate being in the presence of my present, I am not it. In short the reason why I am not what I was is not that there is a change, a becoming conceived as a passage to heterogeneity taking place in the homogeneity of being; on the contrary, a becoming is possible there only because on principle my being and my modes of being are heterogeneous. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 428

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the earlier aphorism’s correct meaning: the past-self disjunction is not temporal retardation but an ontological heterogeneity between being-in-itself and being-for-itself.
• XREF: connects to: Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 585; Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 257; Only a being whose being is in question for itself can have a Future

Broader Connections

• Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 585
• Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 257
• Only a being whose being is in question for itself can have a Future #expands (0.72)