Tabula Rasa, a Latin term loosely translated to “blank slate”, is a theory of epistemology that suggests we are born without a mental road map. Epistemology as a science questions how knowledge is acquired and to what extent a given matter or entity can be known. Tabula Rasa posits that all of the knowledge we obtain comes from individual perceptions and environmental stimuli. Part of the broader “nurture” vs. “nature” argument, tabula rasa attempts to explain why we are who we become: our personality, our ability (or inability) to interact socially, our intelligence, all unique and all created by our solitary interactions.
