The perceived object is irreducible to the consciousness that perceives it.

Evidence

Let us note first that there is a being of the thing perceived—as perceived. Even if I wished to reduce this table to a synthesis of subjective impressions, I must at least remark that it reveals itself qua table through this synthesis, that it is the transcendent limit of the synthesis, the reason for it and its end. The table is before knowledge and can not be identified with the knowledge which we have of it; otherwise it would be consciousness—i.e., pure immanence—and it would disappear as table. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 142

Categorization

• XREF: This grounding move — the object must have a being beyond percipi — sets up Sartre’s distinction between being-in-itself and being-for-itself that grounds Beauvoir’s later ethics of ambiguity. Also echoes Kant’s thing-in-itself. — connects to: Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself; Consciousness is necessarily directed at a being other than itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 151; Consciousness cannot constitute its object because that object is a full presence outside it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 148 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Consciousness cannot constitute its object because that object is a full presence outside it #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 148
• Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself #corroborates (0.90)
• Consciousness is necessarily directed at a being other than itself #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 151
• Sensation requires an object other than the sense acting on it #corroborates (0.80)