Non-being has transphenomenal objectivity just as being does.
Evidence
Imagination, which in Kant’s famous definition is what permits ‘something to be represented in its absence’, initiates a determinate relation between being and non-being. The entity imagined is neither present nor absent. Transcendental imagination, presupposing the co-implication of being and non-being which governs every determination of presence, is specifically the modern modality of the originary unity of opposites. The concept of ens imaginarium supplies to the modern moment of plasticity that very category of a relative non-being which is its correlative. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897 (
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The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. If then I am not my own past, this can not be in the original mode of becoming; the truth is that I have to be it in order not to be it and I have not to be it in order to be it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429 (
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To oppose being to nothingness as thesis and antithesis, as Hegel does, is to suppose that they are logically contemporary. Thus simultaneously two opposites arise as the two limiting terms of a logical series. Here we must note carefully that opposites alone can enjoy this simultaneity because they are equally positive (or equally negative). But non-being is not the opposite of being; it is its contradiction. This implies that logically nothingness is subsequent to being since it is being, first posited, then denied. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 205 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Being-in-itself is full positivity, excluding all negation, becoming, and temporality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 165; Being is necessarily defined against what it is not — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 183; Non-being appears within human expectation, not as pure subjectivity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 188 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429 - Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897 - Nothingness is logically subsequent to being, not its opposite.
#qualifies(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 205 - Being and non-being tempt us to treat them as equal complementary components
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