The original relation between thises is external negation effected by the For-itself

Evidence

The original relation of the thises to one another can be neither interaction nor causality nor even the upsurge on the same ground of the world. If we suppose that the For-itself is present to one this, the other thises exist at the same time “in the world” but by virtue of being undifferentiated; they constitute the ground on which the this confronted is raised in relief. In order to establish any relation whatsoever between one this and another this, it is necessary that the second this be revealed rising up on the ground of the world on the occasion of an express negation which the For-itself has to be. But at the same time each this must be held at a distance from the other as not being the other by a negation of a purely external type. Thus the original relation of this to that is an external negation. That appears as not being this. And the external negation is revealed to the For-itself as a transcendent; it is outside, it is in-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 600

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines external negation as the primitive spatial relation between thises, grounded in the For-itself’s nihilating act rather than in causality or interaction.
• XREF: This external-negation account of spatial relations anticipates and structures Beauvoir’s account of how subjects are constituted reciprocally through negation. — connects to: The in-itself cannot relate to its past because pure being excludes all negation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 414; The for-itself depends on the in-itself through an internal relation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1437; The ‘this’ reveals the concrete negation the for-itself has to be (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The word “and” expresses an external negation separating thises #exemplifies (0.85)
• External negations leave beings untouched while internal negations constitute the self #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 573