The use of this expression was so useful and popular that it has survived the passing of time, the phrase is one of our 'Latin legacies'. The Latin language spread throughout the western world and was taught in schools and spoken by the greatest scholars. "We must make a tabula rasa of the whole situation."
This phrase or expression "Tabula rasa" meaning "Blank or clean slate" is also applied in situations in which there is a need, or an opportunity, to start again from the beginning. It was used by John Locke in his essay Essay Concerning Human Understanding who adopted it in his critique of the theory of innate ideas and his views on the featureless, unformed mind. Tabula rasa only makes sense if the word knowledge is restricted to formal, language-based, propositions. The concept of "Tabula rasa" (a clean slate) has been used by many famous philosophers including Aristotle, Plato and Albertus Magnus.
The term 'rasa' means to erase or scrape. The tablet was made of wood and covered with a layer of wax that could be scraped leaving a smoothed tablet or a blank slate.
The origin of the expression "Tabula rasa"was coined by the philosopher John Locke and dates back to era of the ancient Romans who used a reusable wax tablet called a 'tabula' to make notes.
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