Object permanence derives from finite future potentiality, not infinite time

Evidence

This permanence moreover does not come to the table from a future located in temporal infinity. Infinite time does not yet exist. The table is not revealed as having the possibility of being a table indefinitely. The time concerned here is neither finite nor infinite; potentiality merely causes the dimension of the future to appear. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 606

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Sartre’s ground-breaking but dense point: the ‘now’ is not yet embedded in infinite time; permanence is a projection of engagement, not a given of temporal continuity. This anticipates the finitude of temporality without yet positing death.
• DEFINE: Defines the nature of potentiality and the temporality of the present before infinite time has been established.
• XREF: connects to: Potentiality in νς lets substance contain its own future interpretations; Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 210; An alterable context is the very condition of possibility for every mark — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 672

Broader Connections

• Potentiality in νς lets substance contain its own future interpretations #expands (0.72)
• Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself #complicates (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210