Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
Keith Douglas Nothing to analyze from last time. Reader Alex mentions some analytical categories to help out and also mentions existing legal categories in Canada — thanks! Curry’s Paradox This is the paradox whereby curry always seems hotter when you make it yourself! No, actually, the paradox is due to the expounder of what is…
Keith Douglas January Puzzle Hunt Last time I sent along a puzzle hunt. Each of the answers to the questions starts with a letter that forms an acrostic – i.e., they can be read top to bottom using the first letter. The result is a new year’s greeting in both of Canada’s official languages, and…
Keith Douglas About last time, Alex B. sent along the idea that this was worth thinking about — thanks! My own view of the possibility and necessity puzzle is really that there is not much use to modal logic as presented. It does entail that calculating possibility is harder if one uses (for example) a…
Last year we asked our board and leadership team to make some predictions for 2022. This year we asked them to comment on how accurate they were. While not all of them provided feedback, here’s what they said. Our leader and President, Gus Lyn-Piluso, had only one prediction: He assured us that the Leafs would…
As our world becomes more reliant on algorithms to present us with information, learning to evaluate information through inquiry is the only way to arrive at the truth. Too often, people receive information that supports their viewpoint and fail to actively seek out differing viewpoints that will enable them to evaluate information. Too many people…