theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"""Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c.""",5849,Writing,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",15579,2006-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:44:01 UTC,,"•A footnote to this passage cites, Watts Essay, p. 106.","Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c.
(p. 14)",Chap IV. §19