Scientific time hypostasizes dispersion into a single substantial being

Evidence

Thus on the plane of Present-Past, there appears that curious unity of the absolute dispersion which is external temporality. Here each before and each after is an “in-itself” isolated from others by its indifferent exteriority, and here these instants are reunited in the unity of one and the same being. And this common being or Time is nothing other than the very dispersion, conceived as necessity and substantiality. This contradictory nature could appear only on the double foundation of the For-itself and the In-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 630

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘external temporality’ as the hypostasized unity of dispersed instants, born of the For-itself and In-itself jointly.
• XREF: Connects to the later discussion of bad faith — the scientist’s hypostasization of time is a form of bad-faith self-deception about the For-itself’s own temporalizing. — connects to: One epoch can superimpose upon another only because substance self-differentiates in time — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 473
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: One epoch can superimpose upon another only because substance self-differentiates in time — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 473