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Definition of Tabula rasa
1. Noun. A young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke).
2. Noun. An opportunity to start over without prejudice.
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
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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