Habit is virtuality, never exactly present or at hand.

Evidence

Something we possess as a kind of ις (for example, knowledge) is not strictly speaking present, if by present we mean something which is standing there and here, in front of us, ready at hand. Habit is in fact virtuality. Now the virtual is just that – what is never exactly ‘here’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 486

Categorization

• XREF: Habit-as-virtuality prefigures the dispositional and enactive-turn vocabularies of contemporary brain science — the reader’s bridge domain. — connects to: Habit’s virtuality marks the shift from Greek to modern subjectivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 613; Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit; Habit collapses the gap between ideal aim and its actual realization (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines hexis as virtual presence, and thus what ‘possession’ of a skill actually means.

Broader Connections

• Habit’s virtuality marks the shift from Greek to modern subjectivity #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 613
• Habit is the preservation of a first modification without repetition of the modification #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 502
• Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit #corroborates (0.80)
• Habit collapses the gap between ideal aim and its actual realization #qualifies (0.78)
• Consciousness’s temporality refuses the instant because the for-itself never is. #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 501