[Week 6] INTRODUCTION

"No Man's Knowledge Here Can Go Beyond His Experience." / John Locke

All scholars prove their hypothesis and discover academic facts by their empirical research and discovery. Even proving philosophical truth by logic, the process of proving itself is one kind of empirical found. So, human's researching and understanding toward the world cannot help by being narrow because there are some mysterious secrets which cannot be realized by human's experience such as absolute truth in philosophy. However, positivism says that human can uncover all of secrets about the world only by science and technology. For example, behaviorists in psychology stated that psychologists should except invisible and abstract things such as desire to their research to study mind. Is it true? No, psychologists can't understand the human mind correctly only with one viewpoint - behavior.

1. Attention Grabber

As attention grabber, I quoted J. Locke's famous saying and from this saying, I connected my thesis and topic naturally by suggesting process of proving which people would be likely to think as not empirical discovery.

2. Explain the Topic

Before declaring my thesis, I questioned 'Is it true? - Can psychologists understand all secrets about the human mind only with behaviorism really?' and I suggested key points related to my topic : positivism, behaviorism, science and technology, single viewpoint.

3. Declare My Thesis

About my topic, I declare my thesis obviously, 'No, psychologists can't understand the human mind correctly only with one viewpoint - behavior.'