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What does tabula rasa mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The idea that the mind comes into this world as a "blank slate".
  2. (countable) Anything which exists in a pristine state.
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They are all products of the false belief that we are born with empty minds, a tabula rasa.
It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies.
The mind was a tabula rasa, asserted the British writer John Locke, a clean slate awaiting the imprint of sensory data.
Brains do not evolve and then function as a sort of tabula rasa, molded and formed by culture.
Our colleague says that everything will be handed over from one entity to another and that it will be tabula rasa.
So, for Locke, the human mind was a tabula rasa, a blank slate upon which experience records itself as human knowledge.

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