Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.
If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.