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

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

The success of writers so new fell in well with his design of making a tabula rasa of the detested past: but after all the main reason for which protection was accorded was affection.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede