Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond

Evidence

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. If then I am not my own past, this can not be in the original mode of becoming; the truth is that I have to be it in order not to be it and I have not to be it in order to be it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429

Categorization

• XREF: Core Sartrean ontology that grounds Beauvoir’s account of freedom and ambiguity; connects to preceding book’s framework chapters on being-in-itself and for-itself. — connects to: Only equally-positive terms can be logical opposites; non-being instead contradicts being.; Non-being has transphenomenal objectivity just as being does.; Being and non-being tempt us to treat them as equal complementary components (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Presence to being is a negative internal bond that negates what it confronts #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 444
• Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart #contradicts (0.90)
• Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897