Passing through a place means simultaneously being there and not being there
Evidence
What does it mean to pass? It is simultaneously to be at a place and not to be there. At no moment can it be said that the being of the passage is here, without running the risk of abruptly stopping it there, but neither can it be said that it is not, or that it is not there, or that it is elsewhere. Its relation with the place is not a relation of occupation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 640
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘passing’ negatively against the relation of occupation — the core concept of passage as non-occupation.
- DEEPTHINKING: Sartre’s resolution of Zeno’s paradox by refusing to locate the passage at any point is a genuinely paradigm-shifting move that repays prolonged sitting.
- XREF: connects to: Being present in a place does not let one realize being that place — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1236; Having a place requires not being wholly absorbed in that place — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1169; The permanence of change itself grants passing objects an illusion of duration — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 742 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Having a place requires not being wholly absorbed in that place
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1169 - Being present in a place does not let one realize being that place
#qualifies(0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1236 - The permanence of change itself grants passing objects an illusion of duration
#corroborates(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 742 - The unconscious emerges from the loss of territory
#complicates(0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 455