text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "Tabula rasa. Lat.--""A shaved or smoothed tablet.""--His mind is a tabula rasa--it is a mere blank. The idea is taken from the waxed tablets of the ancients on which they made their memoranda with a sharp instrument called [end page] a stylum, with the other flatted end of which they afterwards erased what they had written.",2009-09-14 19:44:18 UTC,"""Tabula rasa. Lat.--'A shaved or smoothed tablet.'--His mind is a tabula rasa--it is a mere blank.""",2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,,Writing,•Interesting book to find commonplaces.,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",15671,5904