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Author: chazwin
Date: Jun 9, 2007 12:11
... rasa in Latin. When paper was short (like most of the time) and very expensive Romans make wooden plates upon which they poured wax opun which they could scratch their massages. The rasa means sratched clean: a tabula rasa is a "clean slate". There is much to recommend this viewpoint which suggest that we are all blank slates when we are born, indeed that is possibly the most important ...
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