tabula rasa

Her desire for a global tabula rasa outstrips that of even the most fanatical Red Guards, who still dominate her mental landscape.

Each of these, Pythagoras to Euclid, could be counted as a tabula rasa.

“There is a myth of flexibility, and galleries expect to have a tabula rasa,” Gluckman said in a phone interview.

In the 17th century John Locke rejected this idea, insisting that the human mind begins as a tabula rasa, or blank slate, with almost all knowledge acquired through experience.

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.