tabula : Idioms & Phrases
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Tabula rasa
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noun a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
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noun an opportunity to start over without prejudice
fresh start; clean slate.
WordNet
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.
