0 a situation in which nothing has yet been planned or decided, so that someone is free to decide what should happen or be done:
The American republic expanded from a near tabula rasa, politically and geographically speaking.
Projects should aim to work with the existing urban fabric rather than assuming tabula rasa.
Far from being a tabula rasa awaiting the imprint of others' ideas, he was a man of the most rigid principles.
His aim in the east was obliteration: to create a tabula rasa for the new order which was in process of realization.
My little bout with death has left me with a ghostly disconnection from myself - I am wiped clean, a tabula rasa.
The concept held that humans were born with a tabula rasa; that what they became as adults was a function of time and circumstance.
