organon

[ awr-guh-non ]

noun

, plural or·ga·na [awr, -g, uh, -n, uh], or·ga·nons.

1. an instrument of thought or knowledge.
2. Philosophy. a system of rules or principles of demonstration or investigation.

organon

/ ˈɔːɡəˌnɒn /

noun

1. a system of logical or scientific rules, esp that of Aristotle
2. archaic.
   a sense organ, regarded as an instrument for acquiring knowledge

Word History and Origins

Origin of organon¹

First recorded in 1580–90; from Greek órganon; organ

Word History and Origins

Origin of organon¹

C16: from Greek: implement; see organ

Example Sentences

Where Thomas Aquinas, in his thirteenth century “Summa Theologica,” wished to systematize all of Christian doctrine, Lem wrote a secular organon of human civilization’s entanglement with machines.

From The New Yorker

From which it followed that if there is no within, or if that within be inaccessible, either there is no reality, or man has no organon of knowledge, and is by constitution agnostic.

From Project Gutenberg

Logic has the combination of concepts as such as problem, and the ground of knowledge as organon.

From Project Gutenberg

Logic is the doctrine of the organon of science, and when applied is the organon of science.

From Project Gutenberg

This organon was absent, and even in the art of medicine Hippocrates with all his genius did not get beyond highly trained observation, and a conception of disease as a process of Nature.

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