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
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
No soul, no social state, is a tabula rasa.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste
