Article: Beyond tabula rasa.

Tabula rasa is no longer secure. The assumptions that stand watch at the frontiers of that perspective are no longer sufficient to turn are the foreign elements that threaten its purity. Proponents of the tabula rasa judging philosophy have erected a fortress around the dialectic of academic debate, where only competitors are offered asylum. Judges are beggars who cannot find work in that dialectic and are turned out at the city gates. They are marginalized by the assumption that they have no role to play in the competitor's deliberation. The judges are able to infiltrate the castle by day amidst the mob of traders and towns-people who move through its gates. But very ...

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