Sentence examples for as a blank tablet from inspiring English sources

Locke thought of the mind as a "blank tablet" (tabula rasa) prior to experience, but he did not claim that all minds are equal.

He's young and strong and handsome, a blank tablet on which the wonders and treacheries of the world can be written.

So he really was a blank tablet, so to speak, when he started meeting with lawyers.

Halo's Master Chief, formerly a blank tablet propped on top of a mechanised muscle-suit, is apparently AWOL following a grievous personal loss in the fourth game.

Halo's Master Chief, formerly a blank tablet propped on top of a mechanized muscle-suit, is apparently AWOL following a grievous personal loss in the fourth game.

As we shall see, the mind and the body of an ailing individual who presented him- or herself at the French-disease hospital was not a blank tablet on which the institution's medical practitioners simply stamped their conceptions of disease causation and localization.

A blood sample was taken from the volunteer before administration of the tablets as a blank.

Comparison of the mind to a blank writing tablet occurs in Aristotle's De anima (4th century bce; On the Soul), and the Stoics as well as the Peripatetics (students at the Lyceum, the school founded by Aristotle) subsequently argued for an original state of mental blankness.

The product identification was performed using a solid state FTIR spectrophotometer for the chemical composition (IR Affinity-1 Shimadzu, a pure KBr tablet was used as a blank for the background subtraction).

She initially appeared as a blank slate.

We don't face occupational choices as a blank slate.