tabula rasa
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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
Neuroscience inherited the blank slate framework millennia after early thinkers gave names like tabula rasa to mental operations.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2022
Experience with them appeared to consist solely of a succession of sensations appearing to, impressing, or affecting a tabula rasa of consciousness.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander