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