Tabula rasa Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
  2. noun an opportunity to start over without prejudice
    fresh start; clean slate.

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Definitions
  1. L., a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

Webster 1913