Should Armenia be considered Middle East? Poll!
Armenia has historic ties to the Persian, Roman, and Greek empires.
Armenia has cultural similarities to other Caucasus nations, such as Georgians and Azeris.
Armenians resemble other Caucasus people, such as Georgians and Azeris.
Armenia is a...
Scientific Realism makes three kinds of claims:
1. Metaphysical - There is an external world that is mind-independent.
2. Semantic – ex. “Should scientific claims be construed literally?”
3. Epistemological – Scientific theories are approximately true
“The positive argument for...
The Argument from Ignorance - Argumentum ad ignorantiam
The argumentum ad ignorantiam (also known as the argument from ignorance) is a logical fallacy wherein the speaker claims that a proposition is true because it has not been shown to be false, or vice versa. The argument is a form of non...
Same sex marriage - Arguments for and against - The right of homosexuals to marry
Gay marriage or same-sex marriage refers to marriage between two people of the same gender, typically because they are homosexual. It is a controversial subject in many religions and countries. Some countries...
There are three branches of Ethics:
- Applied Ethics = addresses specific ethical questions and problems
- Normative Ethics = examines the rules and principles that guide our behaviour, develops general moral theories: virtue ethics, utilitarianism, consequentialism, etc.
- Meta-Ethics =...
Science can answer moral questions
Sam Harris points out we show greater concern for the well-being of primates than rocks or ants. He suggests this is due to their greater capacity for happiness and suffering. He claims all moral systems are a concern for life capable of conscious experience...
Do you think NATO is obsolete, now that the Soviet Union doesn't exist?
Do you support that NATO reconfigure its alliances? Which countries would you add or remove from NATO?
Argument from Design
It would have to mean that the designer of this plan was unbelievably lazy and inept, or unbelievably callous. And cruel. And indifferent. And capricious. And that is the case with every argument for design, and every argument for revelation and intervention, that has...
What is Truth?
An event is a quantified aspect of reality. A fact is an observed event. Truth is a relation between a theory about events and facts. A statement about a relation between events is true if the relation is a fact. For example: “Elephants can be green”. The facts are “elephants” and...
Beliefs
Belief is the state of mind in which a person things something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty. Beliefs are mental representations of an attitude positively oriented towards the likelihood of...
Hi, I am Petros, and I am Armenian.
Which genetic test would you recommend I take: Dodecad, Eurogenese, etc. Should I test my Y-DNA as well. What information does the test give you?
Are the most expensive tests necessarily better? What price range should I expect the test to cost me?
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