Negation enters being only through human reality, not through being’s own dialectic.

Evidence

In a prohibition or a veto, for example, the human being denies a future transcendence. But this negation is not explicative. My consciousness is not restricted to envisioning a négatité. It constitutes itself in its own flesh as the nihilation of a possibility which another human reality projects as its possibility. For that reason it must arise in the world as a Not; it is as a Not that the slave first apprehends the master, or that the prisoner who is trying to escape sees the guard who is watching him. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 277 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lack is the deepest internal negation and appears only with human reality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 352; Human reality becomes a totality only by surpassing each concrete negation; Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Negation arises in consciousness as the nihilation of another’s projected possibility. #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 277
• Human reality becomes a totality only by surpassing each concrete negation #expands (0.82)
• Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart #contradicts (0.80)
• The self forms only through engagement with that which denies its unity #corroborates (0.78)
• External negations leave beings untouched while internal negations constitute the self #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 573
• Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429