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  2. Tabula rasa - Wikipedia

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    Roman tabula, or wax tablet, with stylus. Tabula rasa (/ ˈ t æ b j ə l ə ˈ r ɑː s ə,-z ə, ˈ r eɪ-/; Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences.

  3. List of Latin phrases (T) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, "blank slate". Romans used to write on wax-covered wooden tablets, which were erased by scraping with the flat end of the stylus. John Locke used the term to describe the human mind at birth, before it had acquired any knowledge. talis qualis: just as such "Such as it is" or "as such". taliter qualiter: somewhat talium Dei regnum

  4. The Blank Slate - Wikipedia

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    Pinker also gives several examples of harm done by the belief in a blank slate of human nature: Totalitarian social engineering. If the human mind is a blank slate completely formed by the environment, then ruthlessly and totally controlling every aspect of the environment will create perfect minds.

  5. Nature versus nurture - Wikipedia

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    The debate between "blank-slate" denial of the influence of heritability, and the view admitting both environmental and heritable traits, has often been cast in terms of nature versus nurture. These two conflicting approaches to human development were at the core of an ideological dispute over research agendas throughout the second half of the ...

  6. Does Your Apartment Have “Blank Slate” Problems? - AOL

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    Too blank, in her opinion. “As many of these new luxury buildings tend to be, the apartment was bereft of interior architecture,” she says. “My goal was to un-white-box the apartment.”

  7. Innatism - Wikipedia

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    Locke ends his attack upon innate ideas by suggesting that the mind is a tabula rasa or "blank slate", and that all ideas come from experience; all our knowledge is founded in sensory experience. Essentially, the same knowledge thought to be a priori by Leibniz is, according to Locke, the result of empirical knowledge, which has a lost origin ...

  8. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia

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    He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley.

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