tabulae

A curriculum relying on the ocean, the bird, and the scholar, on the red man and his blue tabulae, would produce a love of the arts and humanities that we have not yet succeeded in generating in the population at large.

Literary Study 2009

Pinker also describes how toxic evolutionary psychology is in to those who have a vested interest in propagating the idea that humans are tabulae rasa (mostly the left), or are subject to intervention by a Higher Power (often on the right).

Academia, Harvard Law School, and freedom of speech 2010

There are two bullet points to this: we aren't exactly tabulae rasae (Burke probably would say "I told you so!" right about now), and learning is more 'active rather than passive', meaning, encouraging one to use "active" techniques, such as experiments, real-world problem solvings, and creating more knowledge, and then to reflecting upon it and its impact on one's way of thinking.

Constructive Learning 2009

Maybe part of the appeal of some of our most famous celebrities is that they do not exhibit so much in the way of thoughts and brains and opinions after all, and remain tabulae rasae upon whom their fans remain blissfully free to project reflections of their own thoughts and brains and opinions, such as they are.

Celebrities: Ruining Everything « Whatever 2008

Nec enim loculis comitan tibus itur, ad casum tabulae, posita sed luditur arca Leinnius instit.ca. 44. mendaciorum quidem, et perjuriorum et paupertatis mater est alea, nullam habens patrimonii reverentiam, quum illud effuderit, sensim in furta delabitur et rapinas.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

‘Risu solvuntur tabulae,’ said the Baron; ‘when they recovered their panic trepidation they were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet Gellatley.’

Waverley 2004

The oppressed and discontented classes at Rome—debtors, veterans, ruined nobles, and those proscribed by Sulla—found a leader in the aristocrat L. Sergius Catilina, who proposed a program of debt cancellation (novae tabulae).

b. Military Dynasts and Civil Wars 2001

Replacing the traditional collection of rhetorical topics, applying the art of memory to ends different from the traditional, con - ceiving the tabulae as a means of ordering with whose help memory prepares an organized reality for intel - lectual work, and making use of Ramus 'rules in the endeavor to determine forms, Bacon introduced into his logic of science many elements drawn from the

BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968

Philosophy, have identified the whole work of Bacon with the second book of the Novum organum, which contains the famous doctrine of the Tables (tabulae) and Instances (instantiae).

BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968

The civil powers herein acting directly contrary to the nature and perverting the very ends of the magistrate's office, which is to be _custos et vindex utriusque tabulae_; the minister of God, a revenger, to execute wrath on him that doeth evil.

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery