Meaning of tabula rasa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.; a blank slate.
   uncountable, usually
2. Anything which exists in a pristine state.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“We all admit⟳ now that the Child does not come⟳ into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit⟳ that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even prophetic quality, in the child-nature, are due to the harmonization of these racial inheritances in the infant, even before it is born; and that after birth the impact of the outer world serves rather to break⟳ up and disintegrate this harmony than to confirm⟳ and strengthen it.”

“In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.”

“Facebook was a “tabula rasa with carte blanche”, [Yann] LeCun says. “Money was clearly not going to be a problem.””

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