tabula rasa
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Noun (2)
- a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)Type of mind, head
- an opportunity to start over without prejudiceSynonyms: fresh startclean slateType of opportunity, chance
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Tabula rasa
(…) [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; — a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
From the entry Tabula.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54