Every sentence is a free act of self-choice, not an assembly of words.

Evidence

If a language is the reality of speech, if a dialect or jargon is the reality of a language, then the reality of the dialect is the free act of designation by which I choose myself as designating. And this free act can not be an assembling of words. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1217

Categorization

• DEFINE: This defines the sentence as a project of the for-itself, a free act of designation rather than a grammatical assembly — the ontological core of language in Sartre’s system.
• XREF: Directly connects to the foundational ontology of being-in-itself vs. for-itself and nihilation as the defining act of the for-itself. Also the systematic backdrop Beauvoir builds on — her concept of the subject as free choice of self in gesture and speech. — connects to: Every human act expresses the whole person, not a fragment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1334; Motives are freely constituted rather than psychologically forced.

Broader Connections

• Every human act expresses the whole person, not a fragment #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1334
• Motives are freely constituted rather than psychologically forced. #expands (0.80)