tabula rasa

Noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The idea that the mind comes into this world as a "blank slate".
Synonym: blank-slatism

(countable) Anything which exists in a pristine state.

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In Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the (human) mind is a "blank slate" without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experiences. Source: Internet

Locke's idea of tabula rasa is frequently compared with Thomas Hobbes 's viewpoint of human nature, in which humans are endowed with inherent mental content—particularly with selfishness. Source: Internet

Locke, Some Thoughts, 10. He argued that the " associations of ideas " that one makes when young are more important than those made later because they are the foundation of the self: they are, put differently, what first mark the tabula rasa. Source: Internet

McLaren thought he was working with a tabula rasa, but he soon found out that Rotten has ideas of his own". Source: Internet

The eighteenth-century Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau used tabula rasa to support his argument that warfare is an advent of society and agriculture, rather than something that occurs from the human state of nature. Source: Internet

Piper Sandler boosted their price objective on Tabula Rasa HealthCare from $66.00 to $72.00 in a report on Friday, February 28th. Source: Internet

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