Ataturk was a lateral thinker.

He's an independent thinker.

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

Drima, The Sudanese Thinker found it unbelievable

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

After killing Tom, Mary buried him in a shallow grave.

My father, very inventive, spatial thinker.

1857) 1937 Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b.

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.

He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa .

The Thinker is a well known Rodin sculpture.

Now, another kind of mind is the pattern thinker.

1937) 1999 Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice (b.

Sagan is also widely regarded as a freethinker or skeptic one of his most famous quotations, in Cosmos , was, Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (called the Sagan Standard by some).

Now, the thing is, the visual thinker's just one kind of mind.

Later the politician and thinker Leonardo Bruni argued for the active life, or civic humanism .

And you can absolutely never, absolutely never, because of history and the inherited plan, start with a clean slate.

Ørsted was the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment.

He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics.

To paraphrase some thinker or other, I would say that traditional media is too good to be true.

Drima, The Sudanese Thinker blogged about how a child was used for a failed assassination attempt

To protect the city, Hus left and went into the countryside, where he continued to preach and write.

Empedocles ( , Empedoklēs c. 490 c. 430 BC) was a Greek pre Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily.

It can be said that all consciousness is wiped clean and is returned to a blank slate when returning to the Source.

Puddles commonly form in potholes in a dirt road, or in any other space with a shallow depression and dirt.

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

The Thinker ( ) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal.

He was a firm believer in Orphic mysteries, as well as a scientific thinker and a precursor of physical science.

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.

Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences.

His father's influence was that of an enterprising freethinker who encouraged his son's creativity.

Now, given both the common sense and scientific data calling the doctrine of the blank slate into question, why should it have been such an appealing notion?

The first large scale bronze casting was finished in 1902 but not presented to the public until 1904.

Peter Lackowski from Upside Down World interviewed Oscar Olivera, an activist, thinker, and writer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

But what I wanted to talk about are two of these hot buttons that have aroused the strongest response in the 80 odd reviews that The Blank Slate has received.

Because think about it An animal is a sensory based thinker, not verbal thinks in pictures, thinks in sounds, thinks in smells.

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville ( 29 July 1805 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).

Permanent secretary of the Académie française Hélène Carrère d'Encausse said He was a thinker, a philosopher ... We will not find another like him .

However, Grosseteste is best known as an original thinker for his work concerning what would today be called science or the scientific method.

In 1901, Catalan anarchist and free thinker Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia established modern or progressive schools in Barcelona in defiance of an educational system controlled by the Catholic Church.

Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham (1748 1832) was perhaps the most radical thinker of his time, and developed the concept of utilitarianism.

Nikos Kazantzakis ( 18 February 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek , considered his magnum opus .

And luckily, the water was quite shallow, and I was able to push myself off the bottom of the lake and get up and then take another gasp of air.

Well, the argument in The Blank Slate was that elite art and criticism in the 20th century, although not the arts in general, have disdained beauty, pleasure, clarity, insight and style.

The political philosopher and professor Leo Strauss is considered by some as the prime thinker involved in the recovery of Platonic thought in its more political, and less metaphysical, form.