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. |