organon

American  

[awr-guh-non] / ˈɔr gəˌnɒn /

noun

plural

organa, organons

1. an instrument of thought or knowledge.

2. Philosophy. a system of rules or principles of demonstration or investigation.

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organon British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of organon

First recorded in 1580–90; from Greek órganon; 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

One of these is always the principle of sufficient reason in some form or another, as organon; the other is its special object as problem.

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.

From Project Gutenberg