Definition of "tabula" [tab•u•la]

• A table or tablet. (noun)
• One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. (noun)

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• "Also, there was this one poem in it called tabula rasa."
• "BUT … to tie it back to LOST, John Locke – the philosopher not that other John Locke – used the phrase tabula rasa to define his philosophy of the mind as a blank slate."
• "While the notion of tabula rasa focused on the impressionability of, and “exposure learning” by, the child, the emphasis on the infant's dependency pointed to what very much later came to be called instrumental learning."