The object is both fully within each appearance and totally beyond the whole series

Evidence

This new opposition, the “finite and the infinite,” or better, “the infinite in the finite,” replaces the dualism of being and appearance. What appears in fact is only an aspect of the object, and the object is altogether in that aspect and altogether outside of it. It is altogether within, in that it manifests itself in that aspect; it shows itself as the structure of the appearance, which is at the same time the principle of the series. It is altogether outside, for the series itself will never appear nor can it appear. Thus the outside is opposed in a new way to the inside, and the being-which-does-not-appear, to the appearance. Similarly a certain “potency” returns to inhabit the phenomenon and confer on it its very transcendence—a potency to be developed in a series of real or possible appearances. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 118

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the ‘infinite in the finite’ structure of the object and how potency/transcendence return to the phenomenon.
• XREF: connects to: An existent is nothing but the totality of its appearances — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 113; A single scene can render into infinitely many possible images — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 423; Every object appears against an undifferentiated ground and in a chosen but given perspective

Broader Connections

• An existent is nothing but the totality of its appearances #contradicts (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 113
• Every object appears against an undifferentiated ground and in a chosen but given perspective #qualifies (0.80)
• A single scene can render into infinitely many possible images #expands (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 423