Negation inhabits everyday felt realities like absence and regret

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negation structures many everyday realities, not just judgments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 219; Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation; Negation arises in consciousness as the nihilation of another’s projected possibility. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 277 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Negation arises in consciousness as the nihilation of another’s projected possibility. #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 277
• Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation #expands (0.72)