(Latin) blank slate (baby, person that has yet to learn his environment); something that exists in its original ancient or primitive state; fresh start, chance to start over without prejudice
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tabula rasa
n
1. a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to john locke)
2. an opportunity to start over without prejudice [syn: fresh start , clean slate]
tabula rasa
(&?;) [l.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by hobbes, locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas...
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Noun
1. a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
(hypernym) mind, head, brain, psyche, nous
2. an opportunity to start over without prejudice
(synonym) fresh start, clean slate
(hypernym) opportunity, chance
Tabula rasa Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Tabula Rasa is a collaborative album by American banjoist Béla Fleck together with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (playing traditional Indian slide guitar "Mohan veena") and Jie-Bing Chen, who plays the traditional Chinese two-string fiddle "Erhu". The unusual combination of Fleck's banjo together with these traditional instruments creates a unique sound on this album, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album at the 39th Grammy Awards.
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Tabula rasa is the epistemological theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. Generally proponents of the tabula rasa thesis favour the "nurture" side of the nature versus nurture debate, when it comes to aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behaviour, and intelligence. The term in Latin equates to the English "blank slate" (or more accurately, "erased slate") (which refers to writing on a slate sheet in chalk) but comes from the Roman tabula or wax tablet, used for notes, which was blanked by heating the wax and then smoothing it to give a tabula rasa.
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