To take one example, Gassendi assumes material objects must have some substratum composed of basic and indivisible elements ('principles'), and proposes that atoms, as the best candidates for the role of substrata, are the material principles in question.
The blizzard of peripheral numbers may or may not be changing the way football is played, lassoing it with a restrictive self-awareness, but there is a heartening note of constancy in the enduring fascination with football's endnote, its oldest, most indivisible basic skill.
His second antinomy, which deals with the divisibility of space, shows that we can infallibly reason both that the basic components of nature are simple, indivisible substances, and that all substances are infinitely divisible, despite the fact that each of these positions blatantly contradicts the other.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks understood the basic proposition that human rights are indivisible.
Some feel able only to make the basic case that freedom of speech is an absolute and indivisible right, which includes the right to produce crude, crass images that are horribly offensive.
I represent UNICEF, and when we hear of something, we always ask "What does this mean for children?" The launch at this conference of General Comment 2 on Article 6 of the African Children's Charter testifies to what UNICEF advocates for every day: One basic principle of child rights (all human rights) is that they are indivisible – all related.
They imagined matter and the cosmos had two basic ingredients: atoms and the void, both eternal: an infinite number of invisible, impenetrable and indivisible atoms move in the infinite void, creating and destroying countless worlds.
His conviction is not that there exist indivisible discrete building-blocks of material things, but that there is some level of division that is basic or lowest, a theoretical maximum.
