A blank slate. Locke claimed that as opposed to the mind being imprinted with innate ideas before birth, in actually the mind was a blank slate, tabula rasa, when born, and all knowledge was gained first from our experience of the world, and later by our reasoning. This view is popular today.
Latin for "blank tablet"; also, John Locke's metaphor for the condition of the mind prior to the imprint of sensory experience.
Tabula Rasa - S6 - Spell Willow uses to make Tara and Buffy forget their recent problems. The spell goes wrong and everyone forgets who they are.
(Latin for clean tablet) Called blank slate, or white paper (by Locke), it is the condition of the mind at birth, prior to sense experience.
a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
A blank slate. Starting from scratch.
Latin, meaning blank slate. The term refers to the view that human beings are born without any innate knowledge or ideas; all knowledge is acquired through learning and experience. Proposed by the 17th- and 18th-century British empiricists (Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Hartley).
Tabula rasa (Latin: scraped tablet or clean slate) refers to the epistemological thesis that individual human beings are born with no innate or built-in mental content, in a word, "blank", and that their entire resource of knowledge is built up gradually from their experiences and sensory perceptions of the outside world.
"Tabula Rasa" is the eighth episode in season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It explores the characters not as they are, but as they could be, after they lose their memory to a spell gone awry.
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"Tabula Rasa" is the 3rd episode of Lost. It is the third episode of the show's first season. The episode was directed by Jack Bender and written by Damon Lindelof.
Tabula Rasa is the sixth full length studio album from the German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten and was released in 1993. Anita Lane joins Blixa Bargeld on vocals for the song "Blume."
Tabula Rasa was a major finnish progressive rock group in the 1970s.