tabula rasa
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This idea reflects the concept of tabula rasa, or the "blank slate."
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
The conceptual idea around this is that it’s growing out of something, as opposed to tabula rasa, a new building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Somewhere inside a tabula rasa passed off as an office space, a diligent worker is rewarded with a five-minute "dance experience."
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
In part, it is how pioneering South Bronx resident groups like Banana Kelly spared their neighborhood from tabula rasa schemes by outside politicians and planners when the neighborhood was burning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
It denies the existence of any a priori possibility of knowledge, and maintains that the mind is at first a tabula rasa, a clean slate, upon which all the characters are inscribed by experience.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
