The cogito’s self-apprehension is first a grasp of its own contingency.

Evidence

But to be precise, freedom can exist only as restricted since freedom is choice. Every choice, as we shall see, supposes elimination and selection; every choice is a choice of finitude. Thus freedom can be truly free only by constituting facticity as its own restriction. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The for-itself’s self-nihilation is the answer to its own contingency puzzle.; Contingency emerges from necessity’s own violence and becomes its power — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1109; The body is necessary to the for-itself yet manifests its contingency — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 839 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The for-itself’s self-nihilation is the answer to its own contingency puzzle. #expands (0.85)
• Self-perception is impossible because the for-itself is contingency #expands (0.82)
• Freedom is only real once it chooses its own finitude. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176
• Certainty of the Other’s existence arises from the cogito itself, not from inference #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 710
• In possession the for-itself seeks to become its own foundation as in-itself #corroborates (0.78)
• The body is necessary to the for-itself yet manifests its contingency #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 839
• Contingency emerges from necessity’s own violence and becomes its power #complicates (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1109