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Latin. n. pl. tabulae rasae. Scraped tablet. Clean slate. A smoothed tablet. The ancient Romans used tables covered with wax, on which they wrote with a sharp instrument called Stylus ; with the flattened end they could easily erase what they had written, and use the wax again.

The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience. The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.

A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning. Tabula rasa derives from the Latin language and literally means a 'clean slate'. The basic idea is that when the human child ...