Epicurus also posited that the world is made of atoms — the atomos (indivisible) elements of matter.
One example given of a Diodorean-true conditional, 'If it is not the case that there are indivisible elements of things, then there are indivisible elements of things' (SE, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 2.111), suggests that there was some awareness of these paradoxes in antiquity.
In fact, any theory claiming that absolute continua are composed of indivisible elements seems very strange because continua are supposed to be infinitely divisible.
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 genes/proteins organized in these structures are the indivisible elements that are disrupted or regulated abnormally in disease but alterations of different genes/proteins in the same functional unit often converge in a common disease phenotype [ 19].
Indeed we have it on his own testimony that his philosophical system monadism grew from his struggle with the problem of just how, or whether, a continuum can be built from indivisible elements.
SFDRR includes health as an indivisible component of DRR.
It is painful for Muslims to witness the dissection of their element, of their most basic indivisible and grounding unit: the Qur'an, a book of peace and beauty for all (Muslims and non-Muslims).
A necessary element of public nuisance is an interference with a public right — those indivisible resources shared by the public at large, such as air, water, or public rights of way.
This package was depicted as necessarily indivisible and linked to efficiency savings: HealthSpace needs to be developed in a way which enables it to form an element of the portfolio of public online services complementary to the other elements.
