The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by Steven Pinker arguing against tabula rasa models in the social sciences. Definition of blank-slate or blank-paper hypothesis – Our online dictionary has blank-slate or blank-paper hypothesis information from A Dictionary of Sociology. Definition: In psychology, the term “blank slate” actually has two meanings. The first refers to a belief that at birth, all humans are born with the. The Blank Slate theory is the idea that the human. Any claim that the mind has an innate organization strikes people NOT as a hypothesis that might be. Title Testing the blank slate hypothesis: why honey bee colonies accept young bees Journal Insectes Sociaux Volume 51, Issue 1 , pp 12-16 Cover Date The Blank Slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature By Steven Pinker 509 pages Viking, New York, 2002 Reviewed by Brent Danninger In Brief I must first beg forgiveness. History. Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as blank slate in English and originates from the Roman tabula used for notes, which was blanked by heating. An English philosopher named John Locke postulated the tabula rasa (blank slate) theory, which states that people learn and acquire ideas from external forces, or the. The Blank Slate is Steven Pinker's ambitious attempt to close the gap between the conventionally accepted dogma that human beings come into this world free of innate. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, Harvard University Human nature is a topic of perennial interest. The blank slate was not just an empirical hypothesis, but it.