The present as pure being is an infinitesimal instant that reduces to nothingness

Evidence

The existence of consciousness comes from consciousness itself. By that we need not understand that consciousness “derives from nothingness.” There can not be “nothingness of consciousness” before consciousness. “Before” consciousness one can conceive only of a plenum of being of which no element can refer to an absent consciousness. If there is to be nothingness of consciousness, there must be a consciousness which has been and which is no more and a witnessing consciousness which poses the nothingness of the first consciousness for a synthesis of recognition. Consciousness is prior to nothingness and “is derived” from being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 138 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: If being consisted of manifesting essence, no pure being moment would be isolable; Hegel holds pure being and pure nothingness to be the same; The present reveals being yet is itself pure nothingness alongside it. (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• The present reveals being yet is itself pure nothingness alongside it. #corroborates (0.95)
• Nothingness is logically subsequent to being and always supposes a specified being #qualifies (0.85)
• Consciousness grounds itself and precedes all nothingness #complicates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 138