The book is called The Blank Slate, based on the popular idea that the human mind is a blank slate, and that all of its structure comes from socialization, culture, parenting, experience.

The worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.

There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense.

I asked him point blank.

Was it a blank year ?

I see a lot of very blank faces.

Or it might just be that one little nagging thought that just goes round and round and round your mind.

My printer prints a blank page after every document.

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

The blank slate was an influential idea in the 20th century.

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Usually, when we feel annoyed, hatred or upset with someone, or obsessed with something, the mind goes again and again to that object.

Start a new, blank document. You may want to type some sample text.

And so, in their honor, I want to offer you this blank slide.

But what to do about people who are voting with a blank ballot?

Trailer number two, you have a blank slate, you can to anything you want.

Place for compatibility group to be left blank if explosive is the subsidiary risk. .

It just seems to me possibly even a blank page would have been more appropriate.

And then have technology that the person taking the photo will know later, this person requested to be contacted before this goes anywhere big, if you don't mind.

They were blank on one side, and on the other side I listed some simple instructions.

And all of these blank areas are the areas in which the wires are running through.

And this time even a greater number, 83 percent of the people, voted with blank ballots.

Nearly 430,000 of the stolen lost travel documents are blank, including a large number of passports.

Almost across the board, productivity goes up, worker engagement goes up, worker satisfaction goes up, turnover goes down.

Returns TRUE if every character in text is printable, but neither letter, digit or blank, FALSE otherwise.

I'll move it off, and we'll have a blank slide for those who are squeamish amongst you.

Consider the following three scenarios. For each, fill in the blank space with obligatory, permissible, or forbidden.

The database now holds details of 7.1 million stolen and lost travel documents, including 550,000 blank documents.

Through a small telescope, this would look quite blank, but you see here hundreds of little, faint smudges.

Controls how many worksheets will be created if the option Blank Worksheet is chosen when kspread is started.

This is Microsoft Word. When you want to create a new blank document in Word it could happen!

Besides the blank character this also includes tab, vertical tab, line feed, carriage return and form feed characters.

And when the votes had been counted, three fourths of the people have voted with a blank ballot.

Now, you need a camera that fits in your palm, and a couple of bucks for a blank DVD.

He goes back up to B. He gets very excited. Goes to F sharp. Goes to E.

I need you to turn that piece of paper over you should find that it s blank on the other side.

There are also, I think, increasing results from the scientific study of humans that, indeed, we're not born blank slates.

The foremost is that if we're blank slates, then, by definition, we are equal, because zero equals zero equals zero.

I've been to some of those continents, but Africa was, in the words of Steven Pinker, was a blank slate, largely.

And it goes down the sides and goes into the critter's mouth.

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And people would look at him with a blank look, and they would say, What are you talking about? This is craziness.

It's a big blank sheet on our planet. We'll map it within hours, have the maps disseminated out to the major universities.

Included is new draft text for three previously blank sections principles and approaches financial considerations and implementation and taking stock of progress.

is a constant. When the frequency goes up, the wavelength comes down. Wavelength goes up, frequency goes down. So, if we have a wave here over here, that's what's interesting as the pitch goes up, things get closer, pitch goes down, things stretch out.