Non-being appears within human expectation, not as pure subjectivity
Evidence
It is evident that non-being always appears within the limits of a human expectation. It is because I expect to find fifteen hundred francs that I find only thirteen hundred. It is because a physicist expects a certain verification of his hypothesis that nature can tell him no. It would be in vain to deny that negation appears on the original basis of a relation of man to the world. The world does not disclose its non-beings to one who has not first posited them as possibilities. But is this to say that these nonbeings are to be reduced to pure subjectivity? Does this mean to say that we ought to give them the importance and the type of existence of the Stoic “lecton,” of Husserl’s noema? We think not. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 188
Categorization
- XREF: Establishes the deliberate interplay with Husserl’s noema and Stoic lecton that grounding Being and Nothingness on both German and French phenomenology requires — the backdrop against which Beauvoir situates herself. — connects to: Non-being has transphenomenal objectivity just as being does.; Absence is not given by objects but posited by a consciousness that negates; The very act of questioning presupposes the possibility of non-being.
- DEFINE: Distinguishes the human-relative emergence of non-being, the pivotal reference point for Sartre’s being-for-itself.