Pure apparition is always perceived as a dynamic emergence from nothingness

Evidence

But where does “human reality” get its power of emerging thus in non-being? Without a doubt Heidegger is right in insisting on the fact that negation derives its foundation from nothingness. But if nothingness provides a ground for negation, it is because nothingness envelops the not within itself as its essential structure. In other words, it is not as undifferentiated emptiness or as a disguised otherness12 that nothingness provides the ground for negation. Nothingness stands at the origin of the negative judgment because it is itself negation. It founds the negation as an act because it is the negation as being. Nothingness can be nothingness only by nihilating itself expressly as nothingness of the world; that is, in its nihilation it must direct itself expressly toward this world in order to constitute itself as refusal of the world. Nothingness carries being in its heart. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 215 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Nothingness grounds negation by being itself a negation, not an empty void — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 215; Nothingness is expelled from being yet gives the world its outlines; Nothingness is logically subsequent to being and always supposes a specified being (+4 more)

Broader Connections