Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Tabula rasa
The view of the developing child associated with British empiricist, John Locke, in which the child’s mind is a blank slate to be written on by experience.
-
Taboca
A Y-shaped pipe used for smoking by early American Indians.
-
Table wine
A beverage made from fermented fruit juice with an alcohol content of 9% to 12% fortified wine.
-
Table of specifications
A chart of types and numbers of test items to be included in an examination to ensure thorough and systematic coverage of a unit of study.
-
Tabes dorsalis
Locomotor ataxia. A disease of the nervous system, caused by advanced syphilis, in which the person loses the sense of feeling, control of the bladder and the ability to coordinate movements of the legs, and has severe pains. Abnormal condition, usually associated with syphilis, characterized by progressive degeneration of sensory neurons, usually with symptoms of…
-
Tabes
A gradual and progressive wasting in any chronic disease. A condition in which someone is wasting away. An archaic name, previously applied to ‘wasting’ in various diseases such as tertiary syphilis (tabes dorsalis) and tuberculosis, accompanied by enlargement of glands. A gradual, progressive wasting in any chronic disease. A continuous decline in the body or…
-
Systemic
Spread throughout the body. Affecting, generally, all body systems. Referring to or affecting the whole body. A term which, in referring to a disease, means a disease that affects the body as a whole. Affecting the body as a whole, rather than individual parts. Affecting organs and tissues throughout the body rather than a specific…
-
Systemized delusion
A set of highly organized mistaken beliefs that have become the dominant focus of a paranoid patient’s life.
-
Systematic rational restructuring
A type of rational-emotive therapy in which the patient imagines of series of increasingly threatening situations while talking about them in a more realistic, diffusing fashion.
-
System
In sociology, according to Bever, an orderly arrangement of components that are interrelated and act and interact to perform some task or function in a particular environment. The body as a whole. The arrangement of particular parts of the body so that they work together. A group of organs and tissues associated with a particular…
Got any book recommendations?