| It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies. |
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| They are all products of the false belief that we are born with empty minds, a tabula rasa. |
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| The paradoxical implication is of a specific radicalized and gendered tabula rasa. |
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| The mind was a tabula rasa, asserted the British writer John Locke, a clean slate awaiting the imprint of sensory data. |
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| They championed the opposing view that the developing human brain is a tabula rasa. |
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| Locke believed that we are born without innate knowledge, with an empty mind, a tabula rasa. |
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| So, for Locke, the human mind was a tabula rasa, a blank slate upon which experience records itself as human knowledge. |
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| If not exactly a tabula rasa, I am comparatively ignorant of current scientific knowledge and epistemology. |
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| Brains do not evolve and then function as a sort of tabula rasa, molded and formed by culture. |
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| Urszula Antoniak: Both characters are tabula rasa. We know nothing about their past or motivations. |
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| How stunning that low information voters would essentially be tabula rasa as late as October, am I right? |
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| This traditional method of teaching perceives the teacher as having the monopoly of knowledge while the learners are tabula rasa. |
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| Dr. Money believed that infants were born psychosexually tabula rasa, their gender identity something they gained later from their parents and society. |
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| He is immediately answered by the female spectator who is obviously up-to-date with recent critical developments and the Lockean notion of tabula rasa. |
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| If we presume that really young children are somehow just a tabula rasa, a blank slate that we can write on and form in our own image, then we're greatly misguided. |
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| While we are all born with a certain genetic make-up, ultimately we are a society of learners, meaning that we are born tabula rasa and develop habits through imitation. |
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| So the field started out again as a tabula rasa, and when that happens all kinds of mistakes and blunders can creep in. |
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| This objection notwithstanding, we seem to be somewhat intellectually path dependent, and not at all tabula rasa, at least not by the age of consent. |
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| Our colleague says that everything will be handed over from one entity to another and that it will be tabula rasa. |
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| They are not overawed by what their elders had done in their capacity as pioneers, nor do they attempt to make tabula rasa of the past. |
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| This was Champlain's dream-to create a smart and caring society in tabula rasa of the New World. |
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| But the broad West Side Highway, formerly a bustling harbourfront, still feels like a tabula rasa. |
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| Rejecting the idea of development on a tabula rasa basis, they stressed the principle that Haiti should be reborn, in other words, developed primarily on the basis of Haitian resources, capacities and skills. |
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| It is not like in the sensualist conception or like in the old conception of the consciousness as a tabula rasa free of contents, where everything is provided from the outside. |
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| Because of this historical grounding, however, the education system could not be built up from scratch after the earthquake on a tabula rasa basis, since its foundations lay in the country's rich and diverse culture. |
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| Many in positions of liturgical responsibility, with no musical education as regards technique or aesthetics, have come to believe in a tabula rasa, denying any lineage whatsoever. |
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| Ground Zero in Manhattan, tabula rasa in Grozny, political famine in North Korea and Zambia: handcrafted or institutional terror imposes itself both in Asia and in Africa. |
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| Their corresponding teachings must be unified, without trying to make the journey that made by the First World, both regarding religion and education, resorting to the tabula rasa strategy. |
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| The values of past art, tradition, should in no way be curtailed, but when viewing art of the new era one should never proceed from tradition, but should first make tabula rasa within himself. |
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| Witness the currently vanishing street frontages of Smithdown Road and Kensington and the mournful spectacle of the Edge Lane tabula rasa. |
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| And today, they appear like the tabula rasa regularly needed to refresh a medium. |
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| Allon thought he was creating a tabula rasa for new borders. |
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| He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. |
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| Garriott is the creator of Tabula Rasa, a massively multiplayer online PC game that explores the destruction of Earth. |
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| The second and final movement of Tabula Rasa is called Silentium. |
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