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Tabula Rasa
/ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/
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What does Tabula Rasa mean?
noun
- A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.
- Anything which exists in a pristine state.
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/ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/
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/ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹeɪzə/
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Locke had held that the mind is a blank piece of paper, or a wax tablet with nothing engraved on it at birth (a tabula rasa) so far as any contents of ideas were concerned, but had endowed it with activities to be exercised upon the material received.
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There is no ‘tabula rasa’ doctrine in these passages, nor in any others, in the poet’s voluminous works; and of all men of great intellect and learning (it is always a matter of mere insulated intellect), born in England since the days of John Locke, no one, perhaps, has been so entirely untainted with this doctrine as Robert Browning.