Perceived qualities exist objectively as the thing itself, not as subjective effects

Evidence

QUALITY is nothing other than the being of the this when it is considered apart from all external relation with the world or with other thises. Too often quality has been conceived as a simple subjective determination, and its quality-of-being has then been confused with the subjectivity of the psychic. The problem has then appeared to be especially to explain the constitution of an object-pole conceived as the transcendent unity of qualities. We have shown that this problem is insoluble. A quality does not objectivate itself if it is subjective. Supposing that we had projected the unity of an object-pole beyond qualities, at most each one of them would be given directly as the subjective effect of the action of things upon us. But the yellow of the lemon is not a subjective mode of apprehending the lemon; it is the lemon. And it is not true either that the object X appears as the empty form which holds together disparate qualities. In fact the lemon is extended throughout its qualities, and each of its qualities is extended throughout each of the others. It is the sourness of the lemon which is yellow, it is the yellow of the lemon which is sour. We eat the color of a cake, and the taste of this cake is the instrument which reveals its shape and its color to what we may call the alimentary intuition. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 594

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The concept’s determinate form distinguishes subjective in-itself from submerged objectivity; Rules of perceptual appearance are objective, not subjective-psychological in origin; For Sartre a thing’s qualities constitute the thing itself, not subjective additions — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 361 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• For Sartre a thing’s qualities constitute the thing itself, not subjective additions #corroborates (0.90) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 361
• Rules of perceptual appearance are objective, not subjective-psychological in origin #corroborates (0.85)
• Qualities’ meaning requires the for-itself’s nihilating mediation to exist #qualifies (0.80)
• The concept’s determinate form distinguishes subjective in-itself from submerged objectivity #qualifies (0.75)