Some secondary possibles vary freely without altering fundamental project
Evidence
But the Gestalt School has shown us that the prägnanz of the total forms does not exclude the variability of certain secondary structures. There are certain lines which I can add to or subtract from a given figure without altering its specific character. There are others, on the contrary, which cannot be added without involving the immediate disappearance of the figure and the appearance of another figure. The same thing is true with regard to the relation between the secondary possibles and the fundamental possible or the formal totality of my possibles. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1129
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the relation between derived and fundamental possibles: a totality/partial-structure link, not deductibility.
- XREF: connects to: Individual acts express and are unchangeable apart from one’s original project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1119; The possible becomes real only through a person’s project, not as pre-existing logical possibility; The will can reshape details but never its originating fundamental project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1138 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Individual acts express and are unchangeable apart from one’s original project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1119; The possible becomes real only through a person’s project, not as pre-existing logical possibility; The will can reshape details but never its originating fundamental project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1138 (+2 more)