tabula rasa

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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

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

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

Neuroscience inherited the blank slate framework millennia after early thinkers gave names like tabula rasa to mental operations.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2022

The essence of Christianity was meant to be a tabula rasa.

From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher