tabula rasa

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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

Ever since the time of Aristotle, thinkers have assumed that the soul or the mind is initially a blank slate, a tabula rasa on which experiences are painted.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2022

As to Peter’s tabula rasa, it gets back to what I was saying earlier about how the MCU has done such a fine job of establishing him as a kid with a hero’s heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The secondary personality is not a complete personality, but is a manifestation of the original ego with the memory for past events as a tabula rasa.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin