tabula rasa
/ˌtabjʊlə ˈrɑːzə
/noun (plural tabulae rasae /ˌtabjʊliː ˈrɑːziː/)
1An absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate: the team did not have complete freedom and a tabula rasa from which to work
1.1The human mind, especially at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.So, for Locke, the human mind was a tabula rasa, a blank slate upon which experience records itself as human knowledge....
- Locke believed that we are born without innate knowledge, with an empty mind, a tabula rasa.
- They championed the opposing view that the developing human brain is a tabula rasa.
Origin
Latin, literally 'scraped tablet', denoting a tablet with the writing erased.
Rhymes
- restless legs syndrome
- restlessly
- restlessness
- rest level
- rest mass
- resto
- restobar
- restock
- Reston
- rest one's case
- rest on one's laurels
- restorable
- restoral
- restoration
- Restoration comedy
- Restoration Day
- restoration ecology
- restorationism
- restorationist
- restorative
- restorative justice
- restoratively
- restoratory
- restore
- restorement