| It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies. |
| 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. |
| They championed the opposing view that the developing human brain is a tabula rasa. |
| Brains do not evolve and then function as a sort of tabula rasa, molded and formed by culture. |
| They are all products of the false belief that we are born with empty minds, a tabula rasa. |
| The mind was a tabula rasa, asserted the British writer John Locke, a clean slate awaiting the imprint of sensory data. |
