tabula rasa

tabula rasa

1530s, "the mind in its primary state," from L. tabula rasa, lit. "scraped tablet,"
from which writing has been erased, thus ready to be written on again,
from tabula (see table) + rasa, fem. pp. of radere "to scrape away, erase" (see raze).
A loan-translation of Aristotle's pinakis agraphos, lit. "unwritten tablet" ("De anima," 7.22).