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a situation in which nothing has yet been planned or decided, so that someone is free to decide what should happen or be done:
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The American republic expanded from a near tabula rasa, politically and geographically speaking.-
Projects should aim to work with the existing urban fabric rather than assuming tabula rasa.a person whose character is not fixed, and who can develop in different ways:
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Far from being a tabula rasa awaiting the imprint of others' ideas, he was a man of the most rigid principles.in philosophy, the human mind before it has any thoughts or ideas, as it is at birth:
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Holmes conceives of the mind as a tabula rasa.noun
a situation in which there are no fixed ideas about how something should develop
the human mind as it is at birth, with no ideas or thoughts in it
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the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions
something existing in its original pristine state