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The 9 pages that link to Tabula rasa, each with the reason it gives.

• John LockeBroader topic: Locke uses this image to challenge claims that people are born with ideas.

• EmpiricismBroader topic: Locke's blank-slate account became a vivid expression of empiricist psychology.

• Nature versus nurtureCompared with: Its strong emphasis on experience represents one pole of the historical debate.

• Innate ideasCompared with: It directly opposes the claim that the mind begins with built-in ideas.

• NativismCompared with: This classic metaphor expresses the experiential position nativism opposes.

• Émile, or On EducationCompared with: Rousseau’s account of natural dispositions complicates the empiricist picture often associated with this doctrine.

• An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRelated: Locke uses this image to reject innate principles.

• Peripatetic axiomRelated: The axiom is often read as denying innate ideas, though it does not settle every question about them.

• Wang ShuCompared with: His use of salvaged building fragments opposes the erasure implicit in treating sites as blank slates.