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Human nature and the blank slate6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Both may be renewed repeatedly, by melting the wax of the tablet or by erasing the chalk on the slate. ![]() This roughly equates to the English term "blank slate" (or, more literally, "erased slate") which refers to the emptiness of a slate prior to it being written on with chalk. ![]() Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as clean slate in English and originates from the Roman tabula, a wax-covered tablet used for notes, which was blanked ( rasa) by heating the wax and then smoothing it. Proponents of the tabula rasa theory also favour the "nurture" side of the nature versus nurture debate when it comes to aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behaviour, knowledge, and sapience. Epistemological proponents of tabula rasa disagree with the doctrine of innatism, which holds that the mind is born already in possession of certain knowledge. Tabula rasa ( / ˈ t æ b j ə l ə ˈ r ɑː s ə, - z ə, ˈ r eɪ-/ "blank state") is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. ![]()
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