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Revision as of 07:10, 29 July 2012
- tabula rasa (Latin) blank slate. The tabula rasa is an important concept in the philosophy of John Locke. Locke believed that humans enter the world as "blank slates" because we aren't born with any innate ideas about the world. We learn all we know through experience. Note the reference on the previous page to state of nature, an important concept in Locke's political philosophy.
