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   ta·bu·la ra·sa

   /ˌtäbo͝olə ˈräzə/

   noun

   • 1. an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate: "the team did not have complete freedom and a tabula rasa from which to work"
   • ▪ the human mind, especially at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.

   Word Origin Latin, literally ‘scraped tablet’, denoting a tablet with the writing erased.

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