If being consisted of manifesting essence, no pure being moment would be isolable

Evidence

Furthermore if the being of things “consisted” in manifesting their essence, it would be hard to see how Hegel could determine a pure moment of Being where we could not find at least a trace of that original structure. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 202

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Essence is the manifest law of appearances, itself an appearance — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 116; An essence is radically severed from the single appearance that manifests it; The present as pure being is an infinitesimal instant that reduces to nothingness (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Essence is the manifest law of appearances, itself an appearance — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 116; An essence is radically severed from the single appearance that manifests it; The present as pure being is an infinitesimal instant that reduces to nothingness (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Nothingness is a supported recoil from Being that enables consciousness to exist #expands (0.85)
• The present as pure being is an infinitesimal instant that reduces to nothingness #corroborates (0.82)
• Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart #contradicts (0.80)
• Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 585