The idea never entered his mind that in order to establish an American government it was necessary to make a tabula rasa of what existed before.
It was not their purpose to make a tabula rasa of the old structure which had slowly grown stone by stone, statute by statute and to rebuild entirely on new plans.
The soul is a tabula rasa and a mere mirror, says this theory.
The soul is a tabula rasa, all four maintain, a white paper on which, to begin with, nothing is inscribed.
The soul, originally a tabula rasa, is gradually perfected by the ideas which theoretical speculation acquires.
One is to endow sublunar nature with the intelligence and purpose visible in its processes and evolutions; the other is to enable the rational power in man to rise from a tabula rasa to an actual intellect with a content.
It serves merely as a tabula rasa, as a potential background, as an empty receptacle, as a reflecting mirror for form to be written, filled out, impressed or reflected therein or upon.
Actually it is a tabula rasa, an empty slate, a blank paper.
To restore tabula rasa, then, by a continual effort at self-effacement!
Lineriis text reads “et et” Tabula ad sciendum quis planeta dominetur text reads “planetadominetur” without space Punctuation missing punctuation in the Index and Catalog has been silently supplied Expositorius Rogeri Bachonis.
And in thirty or forty years after that France will have her reckoning with us and make tabula rasa of Germany; and then we again, and so on.
I agree with you that, in all probability, in thirty or forty years we shall settle our account with France and make tabula rasa.
Some would attribute to him the Tabula Cebetis (see below), but as that work was well known in the time of Lucian, it is probably to be placed earlier.
Daily life is, after all, so levelling that it makes a tabula rasa of crowned heads and peasants, of sages and fools, of good men and bad.
For the eastern parts of the country reference may be made to the map Tabula Novæ Franciæ, of about 1663, given in the chapter on Acadie.
In 1870 there was published in the Jahrbuch des Vereins für Erdkunde in Dresden (tabula vii.
Accepting for the moment the metaphor of a tabula rasa, Leibniz asks where we shall find a tablet which yet does not have some quality, and which is not a co-operating cause, at least, in whatever effects are produced upon it?
The object of Descartes is the erection of a new structure of truth upon a tabula rasa of all former doctrines.
To Descartes it was useless rubbish to be cleared away, that we might get a tabula rasa upon which to make a fresh start.
But when Leibniz touches upon the conception of a tabula rasa, of a mind which in itself is a mere blank, but has the capacity for knowing, he assumes the offensive.
The attempt was here made to establish certain principles of truth as innate and immanent in the subject, which should avail both against the tabula rasa of Locke, and the scepticism of Hume.
Mind, to the partial realism, was essentially void, a tabula rasa, its whole content came to it from the external world.
There is given a second legend of some importance reading, "Tabula continens quantum quovis proposito anno vel addendum vel demendum sit longitudini affixarum.
Tabula Rasa Nature has given us a virgin continent, a clean slate upon which to write what we will.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tabula" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
