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TABULA RASA
Clean slate or erased tablet. The term is used in scholastic philosophy to describe the human mind before it has acquired any ideas from sense experience and reasoned reflection.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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