tabula rasa
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If the brain started as a true tabula rasa, with no built-in connections, neurons would first need to locate and connect with one another.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
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
Her desire for a global tabula rasa outstrips that of even the most fanatical Red Guards, who still dominate her mental landscape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
Nevertheless, under pain of contradicting the hypothesis, we are forced to admit that there was a first subject who, prior to the action of the object, must have been this tabula rasa.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
