Negation structures many everyday realities, not just judgments

Evidence

There is an infinite number of realities which are not only objects of judgment, but which are experienced, opposed, feared, etc., by the human being and which in their inner structure are inhabited by negation, as by a necessary condition of their existence. We shall call them négatités. … Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being—like a worm. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 219

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core Sartrean term négatités as experienced realities whose inner structure is inhabited by negation.
• XREF: The ‘worm in the heart of being’ image recurs through existentialist thought; connects to the systematic backdrop being built for Beauvoir’s ethics. — connects to: Negation inhabits everyday felt realities like absence and regret; Negation is a constitutive structure of spatial distance itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 218; Everyday negations need no leap beyond the world toward abstract nothingness. (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Negation inhabits everyday felt realities like absence and regret #exemplifies (0.85)
• Negation is a constitutive structure of spatial distance itself #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 218