tabula

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A table; a tablet.

One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

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Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. Stanislav Grof

Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality. Nayef Al-Rodhan

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. Richard Powers

The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin. David Grinspoon

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me. Thom Mayne

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