The personal site of Tyler Forster — photography, independent research, and writing on how minds form, hold, and revise beliefs. Based in Lethbridge, Alberta.https://www.tforster.ca/en-CAhttps://www.tforster.ca/writing/you-cannot-argue-someone-out-of-a-belief/https://www.tforster.ca/writing/you-cannot-argue-someone-out-of-a-belief/An essay on why argument rarely shifts a belief, and what does: the interplay of trait, state, and the psychological work a belief quietly performs.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbeliefpersuasionhttps://www.tforster.ca/writing/a-herbarium-for-texts/https://www.tforster.ca/writing/a-herbarium-for-texts/An essay arguing that honest knowledge infrastructure must preserve originals with provenance, keep derived claims separate and cited, represent "unknown" as a real value, and hold scholarly disagreement side by side rather than flattening it — built around the image of a herbarium for texts.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTscholarshipopen knowledgehttps://www.tforster.ca/writing/belief-as-probability/https://www.tforster.ca/writing/belief-as-probability/An idea essay on holding beliefs as probabilities rather than switches, why certainty is the real trap, and how calibration keeps honest updating possible.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbeliefevidencehttps://www.tforster.ca/writing/seeing-is-a-discipline/https://www.tforster.ca/writing/seeing-is-a-discipline/An essay arguing that seeing is a trainable discipline of attention rather than an innate talent, grounded in southern Alberta landscape and light, and connected to the honesty of looking at evidence before interpreting it.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTphotographyseeinghttps://www.tforster.ca/writing/why-i-built-this/https://www.tforster.ca/writing/why-i-built-this/Why this site exists: a durable home I own, and a promise to think out loud across belief, evidence, seeing, ancient texts, and building things that last.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnotes