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

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 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

The soul is a tabula rasa, all four maintain, a white paper on which, to begin with, nothing is inscribed.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf