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  2. Tabula rasa - Wikipedia

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    Roman tabula, or wax tablet, with stylus. Tabula rasa (/ ˈ t æ b j ə l ə ˈ r ɑː s ə,-z ə, ˈ r eɪ-/; Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences.

  3. List of Latin phrases (T) - Wikipedia

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    Translation Notes tabula gratulatoria: congratulatory tablet: A list of congratulations. tabula rasa: scraped tablet: Thus, "blank slate". Romans used to write on wax-covered wooden tablets, which were erased by scraping with the flat end of the stylus. John Locke used the term to describe the human mind at birth, before it had acquired any ...

  4. Tabula Rasa (Finnish band) - Wikipedia

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    Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, ... Tabula Rasa was a progressive rock group from Finland, active from 1972 to 1977. [1] History

  5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia

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    He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley.

  6. Heikki Silvennoinen - Wikipedia

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    Silvennoinen was born in Kiviapaja, Sääminki on 27 April 1954. As a young boy he admired the music of Eric Clapton, Cream and Jimi Hendrix.He learned to play the guitar and formed a rock band called Tabula Rasa, [2] one of the most important 1970s progressive rock bands in Finland.

  7. Book Review: John McPhee delivers a lovely ‘reminiscence ...

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    That’s the premise behind “Tabula Rasa,” which the 92-year-old McPhee wryly indicates is “Volume 1” because “the purpose of (the project) is to keep the old writer alive by never ...

  8. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    A Latin translation of René Goscinny's phrase in French ils sont fous, ces romains! or Italian Sono pazzi questi Romani. Cf. SPQR, which Obelix frequently used in the Asterix comics. Deo ac veritati: for God and for truth: Motto of Colgate University. Deo confidimus: In God we trust: Motto of Somerset College. Deo Dante Dedi: God having given ...

  9. Female Figure (Velázquez) - Wikipedia

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    Female Figure (or Sibyl with Tabula Rasa, Spanish: Sibila con tábula rasa) is a small, probably unfinished, 1648 oil on canvas painting by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.