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

Ever since the time of Aristotle, thinkers have assumed that the soul or the mind is initially a blank slate, a tabula rasa on which experiences are painted.

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

His mind must become a tabula rasa before his teacher can begin to write on it.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond