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Definition: Tabula Rasa |
Tabula RasaNoun1. A young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke). 2. An opportunity to start over without prejudice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Statistics | Erased tablet(Latin). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Tabula Rasa is a theory that the (human) mind is at birth a "blank slate" without data or rules for processing it, and that data is added and rules for processing it formed solely by our sensory experiences. Tabula Rasa (Latin for "clean slate" or "blank slate") was first advocated by John Locke, and is central to empiricism. It is also featured in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis.
Implicit in the theory is the belief that individuals are infinitely and arbitrarily malleable by society: by changing the individual's environment, and thus sensory experiences, one can shape the individual with few, if any, restrictions. Thus the theory is taken up by many utopian schemes that rely on changing human nature in order to achieve their goals.
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Synonyms: Tabula RasaSynonyms: clean slate (n), fresh start (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Emptiness; Adjective: void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa; exemption; hiatus; (interval); lipotype. |
Facility | Smooth water, fair wind; smooth royal road; clear coast, clear stage; tabula rasa; full play; (freedom). |
Ignorance | Noun: ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance; unconsciousness; Adjective: darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity. |
Inexistence | Noun: inexistence; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nonentity, nil; negativeness; Adjective: nullity; nihility, nihilism; tabula rasa, blank; abeyance; absence; no such thing; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion. |
Obliteration | Noun: obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction. |
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Crosswords: Tabula Rasa |
| Non-English Usage: "Tabula Rasa" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Hungarian (clean slate). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tabula rasa (1989) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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tabula rasa | 97 |
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| Language | Translations for "tabula rasa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | tabula rasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tabula rasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyhjä taulu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Tabula rasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tiszta (blank, by the merest chance, chaste, clean, clear, distinct, fine, franchised, hygienic, legible, light, limpid, neat, net, open and shut, pellucid, perspicuous, platonic, proof spirit, pure, saintly, sheer, sinless, sky clear, transparent), tapasztalattal még nem rendelkező emberi lélek, lap (card, deflector, drilling, face, flat, page, plate, section, side, slab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tabula rasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abulatay asaray población inicial formada por reglas generadas al azar. (various references) yok etme (annihilation, disposal, effacement, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, obliteration), yazısız levha, bebeğin işlenmemiş beyni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-l-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: ablauts, albatas, atabals, austral, balatas, subalar, tabular. | |
-4 letters: ablaut, albata, altars, astral, atabal, balata, basalt, blurts, brutal, bursal, labara, lauras, lustra, rabats, ratals, satara, tablas, talars, tarsal, ultras. | |
-5 letters: abuts, albas, altar, artal, atlas, aural, auras, baals, balas, balsa, basal, blast, blats, blurs, blurt, brats, buras, burls, bursa, burst, labra, laura, rabat, ratal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-b-l-r-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: baccalaureates. | |
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