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
The top is a tabula rasa of post-pandemic young adulthood, ready to absorb and reflect the 2023 equivalent of those aforementioned references: It looks like TikTok, tastes like espresso martinis and sounds like Dua Lipa.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 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
When I ordered him to approach tabula rasa, he invariably went to the right one.
From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst
