Nothingness is expelled from being yet gives the world its outlines

Evidence

The for-itself corresponds then to an expanding de-structuring of the in-itself, and the in-itself is nihilated and absorbed in its attempt to found itself. Facticity is not then a substance of which the for-itself would be the attribute and which would produce thought without exhausting itself in that very production. It simply resides in the for-itself as a memory of being, as its unjustifiable presence in the world. Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but not its being. In its decompression it nihilates itself in a for-itself which becomes qua for-itself its own foundation; but the contingency which the for-itself has derived from the in-itself remains out of reach. It is what remains of the in-itself in the for-itself as facticity and what causes the for-itself to have only a factual necessity; that is, it is the foundation of its consciousness-of-being or existence, but on no account can it found its presence. Thus consciousness can in no case prevent itself from being and yet it is totally responsible for its being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Consciousness grounds itself and precedes all nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 138; Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart; Nothingness grounds negation by being itself a negation, not an empty void — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 215 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Nothingness is a supported recoil from Being that enables consciousness to exist #expands (0.85)
• Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346
• Nothingness is logically subsequent to being and always supposes a specified being #qualifies (0.80)
• The nothingness separating self and Other precedes and founds all relation #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675