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Tabula Rasa
Also Known As Blank Slate
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Tabula rasa, Latin for blank slate, is the idea that a mind is born empty of innate content and that all knowledge and personality arise from sensory experience and environment. Aristotle introduced an unscribed-tablet notion in De Anima and Avicenna developed it in the eleventh century, but John Locke popularized the modern version, using the term white paper in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, making it central to empiricism.
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The modern idea of the theory is attributed mostly to John Locke's expression of the idea in Essay Concerning Human Understanding, particularly using the term "white paper" in Book II, Chap. I, 2.
Tabula Rasa (Wikipedia)
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Tabula rasa; Latin for "blank slate"
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