The situation is things plus myself, not impressions, revealing brute facticity.
Evidence
The situation can not be subjective, for it is neither the sum nor the unity of the impressions which things make on us. It is the things themselves and myself among things; for my upsurge into the world as the pure nihilation of being has no other result but to cause there to be things, and it adds nothing. In this aspect the situation betrays my facticity; that is, the fact that things simply are there as they are without the necessity or the possibility of being otherwise and that I am there among them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1278
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes situation from sense-data and connects it to facticity.
- XREF: connects to: The Other’s presence is a brute fact irreducibly distinct from the for-itself’s own facticity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1210; Interpretation aims at personal meaning, not just factual information. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 11; Brute factual reality resists attempts to impose an alternate one — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 167 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Other’s presence is a brute fact irreducibly distinct from the for-itself’s own facticity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1210; Interpretation aims at personal meaning, not just factual information. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 11; Brute factual reality resists attempts to impose an alternate one — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 167 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Interpretation aims at personal meaning, not just factual information.
#complicates(0.78) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 11