The possible is understood either as subjective ignorance or as divine thought.

Evidence

If the possible can in fact come into the world only through a being which is its own possibility, this is because the in-itself, being by nature what it is, can not “have” possibilities. The relation of the in-itself to a possibility can be established only externally by a being which stands facing possibilities. The possibility of being stopped by a fold in the cloth belongs neither to the billiard ball which rolls nor to the cloth; it can arise only in the organization into a system of the ball and the cloth by a being which has a comprehension of possibles. But since this comprehension can neither come to it from without—i.e., from the in-itself—nor be limited to being only a thought as the subjective mode of consciousness, it must coincide with the objective structure of the being which comprehends its possibles. To comprehend possibility qua possibility or to be its own possibles is one and the same necessity for the being such that in its being, its being is in question. But to be its own possibility—that is, to be defined by it—is precisely to be defined by that part of itself which it is not, is to be defined as an escape-from-itself towards—. In short, from the moment that I want to account for my immediate being simply in so far as it is what it is not and is not what it is, I am thrown outside it toward a meaning which is out of reach and which can in no way be confused with immanent subjective representation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 382 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Leibnizian possibility is epistemic, relative only to our ignorance; Possibility arises only through a being that comprehends and embodies its own possibles. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 382; Using necessity or impossibility seriously covertly claims omniscience about all possibilities — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 615 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Leibnizian possibility is epistemic, relative only to our ignorance #exemplifies (0.92)
• Possibility arises only through a being that comprehends and embodies its own possibles. #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 382
• Consciousness mirrors divine self-relation rather than constituting it #contradicts (0.80)
• Ignorance as want of knowledge derives from active ignoring as refusal to take notice. #expands (0.75)
• Using necessity or impossibility seriously covertly claims omniscience about all possibilities #qualifies (0.70) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 615