In knowledge the knower is the absence that makes the known’s plenitude present

Evidence

On the other hand, in knowledge, taken as a bond of ontological being, the being which I am not represents the absolute plenitude of the in-itself. And I, on the contrary, am the nothingness, the absence which determines itself in existence from the stand-point of this fullness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 577

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• XREF: connects to: Knowledge of being presupposes the knower’s separation from the being known — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 653