tabula rasa

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This idea reflects the concept of tabula rasa, or the "blank slate."

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

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

Each of these, Pythagoras to Euclid, could be counted as a tabula rasa.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

His complete honesty, tabula rasa, complete truthful, youthful, wide-eyed innocence and sweetness — it’s really hard to create that once you’ve lived, you know, 35 more years.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

And then a host of vividly-pictured images began to succeed each other with frightful rapidity across the tabula rasa of her mind.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline