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5 dictionary results for: Tabula rasa
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ta·bu·la ra·sa       [tab-yuh-luh rah-suh, -zuh, rey-; Lat. tah-boo-lah rah-sah] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural ta·bu·lae ra·sae       [tab-yuh-lee rah-see, -zee, rey-; Lat. tah-boo-lahy rah-sahy] Pronunciation Key.
1.a mind not yet affected by experiences, impressions, etc.
2.anything existing undisturbed in its original pure state.
[Origin: 1525–35; < L tabula rāsa scraped tablet, clean slate]
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tab·u·la ra·sa       (tāb'yə-lə rä'sə, -zə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. tab·u·lae ra·sae (tāb'yə-lē' rä'sē, -zē)
    1. The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience.
    2. The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.
  2. A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning.


[Medieval Latin tabula rāsa : Latin tabula, tablet + Latin rāsa, feminine of rāsus, erased.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tabula rasa 
1535, "the mind in its primary state," from L., lit. "scraped tablet," from which writing has been erased, thus ready to be written on again, from tabula (see table) + rasa, fem. pp. of radere "to scrape away, erase" (see raze). A loan-translation of Aristotle's pinakis agraphos, lit. "unwritten tablet" ("De anima," 7.22).

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tabula rasa

noun
1. a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke) 
2. an opportunity to start over without prejudice [syn: fresh start] 

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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
tabula rasa [(tab-yuh-luh rah-zuh, rah-suh)]

Something new, fresh, unmarked, or uninfluenced. Tabula rasa is Latin for ®Äúblank slate.®Äù

Note: John Locke believed that a child's mind was a tabula rasa.

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