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
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
Neuroscience inherited the blank slate framework millennia after early thinkers gave names like tabula rasa to mental operations.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2022
As to Peter’s tabula rasa, it gets back to what I was saying earlier about how the MCU has done such a fine job of establishing him as a kid with a hero’s heart.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
No soul, no social state, is a tabula rasa.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste