work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4267,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"With ordinary minds, such, as much the greatest part of the World are, 'tis the Sutableness, not the Evidence of a Truth, that makes it to be assented to. And it is seldom, that any thing practically convinces a Man, that does not please him first. If you would be sure of him, you must inform, and gratifie him too. But now, Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion, keeps it tight and even from the Byass of Interest and Desire; and so presents it like a Rasa Tabula equally disposed to the Reception of all Truth. So that the Soul lies prepared, and open to entertain it; and prepossessed with Nothing that can oppose, or thrust it out. For where Diligence opens the Door of the Understanding, and Impartiality keeps it, Truth is sure to find both an Entrance and a Welcome too.
(pp. 305-6)",,11116,"•South avails himself of the Pyrrhonist version of the Tabula Rasa metaphor. These sermons appear in multiple editions in the c18.
• ""right and even"" in later versions, ""tight and even"" in EEBO-TCP.","""But now, Impartiality strips the Mind of Prejudice and Passion, keeps it right and even from the Byass of Interest and Desire, and so presents it like a Rasa Tabula, equally disposed to the Reception of all Truth.""",Writing,2014-10-05 19:37:42 UTC,""
7740,"",Searching in EEBO-TCP,2013-10-25 21:35:03 UTC,"1. For the Understanding Speculative. There are some general Maximes and Notions in the mind of Man, which are the rules of Discourse, and the basis of all Philosophy. As that the same thing cannot at the same time be, and not be. That the Whole is bigger then a Part. That two Proportions equal to a third, must also be equal to one another. Aristotle indeed affirms the Mind to be at first a meer Rasa tabula; and that these Notions are not ingenite, and imprinted by the finger of Nature, but by the latter and more languid impressions of sense; being onely the Reports of observation, and the Result of so many repeated Experiments.
But to this I answer two things. [...]
(pp. 10-11)",,23041,"","""Aristotle indeed affirms the Mind to be at first a meer Rasa tabula; and that these Notions are not ingenite, and imprinted by the finger of Nature, but by the latter and more languid impressions of sense; being onely the Reports of observation, and the Result of so many repeated Experiments.""",Writing,2013-10-25 21:35:03 UTC,""