tabula rasa

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See also: tábula rasa

English

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Etymology

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From Latin tabula (wax-covered writing tablet) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/, /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹeɪzə/
  • Audio (General American):(file)

Noun

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tabula rasa (usually uncountable, plural tabulae rasae or tabulæ rasæ)

  1. A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.; a "blank slate".
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 173:
      We all admit now that the Child does not come into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even prophetic quality, in the child-nature, are due to the harmonization of these racial inheritances in the infant, even before it is born; and that after birth the impact of the outer world serves rather to break up and disintegrate this harmony than to confirm and strengthen it.
  2. Anything which exists in a pristine state.
    • 1975 October 27, Aaron Latham, “John Connally on the Comeback Road”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, pages 47–48:
      In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rāsa (literally erased tablet).

Noun

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tabula rasa f (invariable)

  1. tabula rasa (all senses)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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tabula rasa m

  1. tabula rasa (all senses)

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rasa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈta.bu.la ˈra.za/
  • Syllabification: ta‧bu‧la ra‧sa

Noun

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tabula rasa f (indeclinable)

  1. (philosophy) tabula rasa (the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state)

Further reading

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  • tabula rasa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tabula rasa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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Noun

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tabula rasa f (uncountable)

  1. tabula rasa

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