The body is a unity like hand-glass, not hand plus action

Evidence

Thus Pierre’s body is not first a hand which could subsequently take hold of this glass; such a conception would tend to put the corpse at the origin of the living body. But his body is the complex hand-glass, since the flesh of the hand marks the original contingency of this complex. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 898

Categorization

• DEFINE: The body-object is a synthetic unity (hand-glass), not an isolated thing that then acts.
• XREF: connects to: The body is the instrument that cannot be used like other instruments; Sensation and action cannot be cleanly separated in bodily experience
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The body is the instrument that cannot be used like other instruments; Sensation and action cannot be cleanly separated in bodily experience

Broader Connections

• Sensation and action cannot be cleanly separated in bodily experience #corroborates (0.82)