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tabula rasa
Latin · ancient
"a scraped, blank writing tablet"
scraped tablet, from tabula (writing tablet) and rasus (scraped)
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tabula rasa
English · 1500s
"a mind with no preconceived ideas, like a blank slate"
adopted into English philosophical vocabulary for a mind free of preconceptions
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