Found 2 items, similar to tabula rasa.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tabula rasa tabula rasa n 1: a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke) 2: an opportunity to start over without prejudice [syn: fresh start , clean slate]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tabula rasa Tabula \Tab"u*la\, n.; pl. Tabul[ae]. [L.] 1. A table; a tablet. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]