tabula rasa

Example Sentences

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“There is a myth of flexibility, and galleries expect to have a tabula rasa,” Gluckman said in a phone interview.

From New York Times

Much like children themselves, they were a tabula rasa, a screen on which young readers could project and try out their own new and unfamiliar emotions.

From Washington Post

Historically, she added, the city state’s model of urban development has been “biased toward a very tabula rasa, tear-down-and-rebuild sort of approach.”

From New York Times

I’m also increasingly convinced that building equitable spaces means getting past the idea of always going for a brand-new, tabula rasa solution when we’re thinking about the future of a park or other open space.

From Los Angeles Times

In this enlightening examination of the brain’s power to learn, Dehaene dispenses with the idea that the human brain is a tabula rasa, or blank slate, arguing that it comes preprogrammed by evolution.

From Scientific American