About 25 centuries ago, Aristotle developed the rules of formal logic (identity, contradiction, and exclusion of thirds), which became the basis of modern Western civilization. Any text, speech, or thought must obey those rules; otherwise, people will not understand each other.
For example, the principle of exclusion of the third: the same judgment is either right or wrong. When a court makes a judgment, in some instances, it must decide one of two things: guilty or not guilty, or essentially no verdict. But that principle of logic is applied in the case of similar phenomena. We cannot say whether one of the two: is to blame or it rained today.
Now let’s see what logical structures Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan uses. “If the army was capable of combat, why should we sing ‘Stepanakert, Stepanakert’?” From that statement, it can be concluded that a/ if the army is capable of combat, no one should sing that song; b/ singing that song proved that our army is incapable of combat. By the way, after the events in Tavush in July 2020, the Prime Minister was sure that the army was capable of combat and spoke about it several times. He probably didn’t know then that the army was looted and the high-ranking officers were traitors.
I suggest the reader subject the following statement of the Prime Minister to the same logical analysis. “If they did not consider Nagorno-Karabakh to be a part of Azerbaijan, then why should they agree on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan?” So the nearly 30-year-long negotiations within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, which also included the status of Artsakh, assumed a priori that this status should be part of Azerbaijan.
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It is not about who was right or wrong in the negotiations 10 or 20 years ago, and it is clear that the current government constantly raises this question to justify the current deplorable situation. It is only about the rules of logic, which our government bypasses in its rhetoric and teaches its electorate that they are unimportant.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
