*An image of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, sourced from Wikipedia Formally, arguments can take on one of three forms: deduction, induction, and abduction. Deductive arguments operate such that necessarily, if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true.

Feb 9, 2024

Disclaimer: I am not an epidemiologist or a medical doctor. I am simply a psychiatry research student with a slightly-above-undergradute-level understanding of statistics, and a background in the philosophy of science – both of which I am relying entirely upon to write this blog post.

Nov 12, 2022

Best quote: " . . . if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system.

Jun 12, 2022

Last week, I graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Psychology and Philosophy: Since the convocation ceremony, I’ve been reflecting on my four years as an undergraduate.

Jun 11, 2022

Happy New Year! 2021 was a rough year, not just for me personally, but for pretty much everybody. If you’re like me, you’re probably anxious about what is to come in 2022–humans are naturally intolerant of uncertainty, and the new omicron variant of COVID-19 has given us a lot of uncertainty.

Jan 2, 2022