The in-itself is fully self-coincident, leaving no gap for nothingness

Evidence

The being of consciousness,” we said in the Introduction, “is a being such that in its being, its being is in question.” This means that the being of consciousness does not coincide with itself in a full equivalence. Such equivalence, which is that of the in-itself, is expressed by this simple formula: being is what it is. In the in-itself there is not a particle of being which is not wholly within itself without distance. When being is thus conceived there is not the slightest suspicion of duality in it; this is what we mean when we say that the density of being of the in-itself is infinite. It is a fullness. The principle of identity can be said to be synthetic not only because it limits its scope to a region of definite being, but in particular because it masses within it the infinity of density. “A is A” means that A exists in an infinite compression with an infinite density. Identity is the limiting concept of unification: it is not true that the in-itself has any need of a synthetic unification of its being; at its own extreme limit, unity disappears and passes into identity. Identity is the ideal of “one,” and “one” comes into the world by human reality. The in-itself is full of itself, and no more total plenitude can be imagined, no more perfect equivalence of content to container. There is not the slightest emptiness in being, not the tiniest crack through which nothingness might slip in. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 328

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the in-itself as pure identity and full density, contrasted against consciousness.
• XREF: The ‘one comes into the world by human reality’ line seeds the for-itself/ontology of number that later phenomena critiques develop. — connects to: Being-in-itself is full positivity, excluding all negation, becoming, and temporality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 165; Being-in-itself is a solid, self-sealed mass without interiority.; The in-itself has no need of the for-itself to be — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1439 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The in-itself has no need of the for-itself to be #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1439
• The For-itself’s being consists in internal negation rather than self-coincidence #responds-to (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 445