Christopher Knight, art critic of The Los Angeles Times, in reviewing the current show, said that implicit in Mr. Hockney's photography and photocollages is a "connection to indivisibility -- to what's not in the picture".
In fact, the increasing focus on indivisibility works to shield illiberal states that want economic development without challenges to their own authority, and rely on an inflated definition of human rights to deflect criticism of their repressive measures.
Yet little by little that indivisibility begins to crack and fray.
This would occur because scale based production is a step function due to indivisibility of production technologies.
More perhaps wanted to avoid objections to the indivisibility of extended spirits of the kind levelled against the concept of atoms: if an atom has dimensions, however small, it is conceptually divisible, even if atomists wish to claim it is physically indivisible.
Reid (1785), almost an exact contemporary of Kant's, made extensive use of the unity of consciousness, among other things to run Descartes' argument from unity to indivisibility the other way around.
Along with, and related to, the principle of indivisibility of interests, multilateralism is considered to give rise to expectations of diffuse reciprocity among participants.
Briefly, for Leibniz (see the entry on Leibniz's philosophy of mind) unified consciousness and the noncompositeness, the indivisibility that he took to be required for it seem to have served as his model of a monad, the building block of all reality.
Presumably haecceities would not be needed to explain indivisibility, since everything — whether particular or universal — is indivisible in the required sense (numerically indivisible; numerically identical in anything in which it exists).
The notion of indivisibility can contribute to the current health policy debate around determinants of health by reinforcing the central role of broader structural factors related to power and oppression in society.
The drafters of the UDHR saw that the idea of the indivisibility of rights has to be taken seriously, and fully embedded in what makes their possession and exercise meaningful.
