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Responding to Hegel, Sartre resists the dialectical interchange of being and nothing that is becoming. He asserts, instead, "that being is prior to nothingness and establishes the ground for it. By this we must understand not only that being has a logical precedence over nothingness but also that it from being that nothingness derives concretely its efficacy." Nothingness therefore owes its existence to being, and not vice-versa; in Sartre's famous phrase, "nothingness haunts being".
Paul
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