Definition of Tabula rasa

1. Noun. A young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke).

Generic synonyms: Brain, Head, Mind, Nous, Psyche

2. Noun. An opportunity to start over without prejudice.
Exact synonyms: Clean Slate, Fresh Start
Generic synonyms: Chance, Opportunity

Definition of Tabula rasa

1. Noun. The idea that the mind comes into this world as a "blank slate". ¹

2. Noun. Anything which exists in a pristine state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabula Rasa

tabouring
tabourins
tabours
tabrere
tabreres
tabret
tabrets
tabs
tabtoxin
tabtoxins
tabu
tabu search
tabued
tabuing
tabula
tabula rasa
tabulable
tabulae
tabulae rasae
tabular
tabular array
tabular matter
tabularise
tabularization
tabularize
tabularized
tabularizes
tabularizing
tabularly
tabulata

Literary usage of Tabula rasa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Thought by Friedrich Max Müller (1887)
"But what is that tabula rasa, which sounds so learned, and yet is mere verbal jugglery? The Tabula Let us accept the metaphor that the mind rasa- is like a ..."

2. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"The idea of the experimentalists that the mind of the newly born child is a tabula rasa, and that all sensations are based on individual experiences, ..."

3. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... experimentalists that the mind of the newly born child is a tabula rasa, and that all sensations are based on individual experiences, ..."

4. The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation by Upton Sinclair (1918)
"... tabula rasa Nature has given us a virgin continent, a clean slate upon which to write what we will. And what are we writing? What is our intellectual ..."

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