organon
Americannoun
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an instrument of thought or knowledge.
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Philosophy. a system of rules or principles of demonstration or investigation.
noun
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a system of logical or scientific rules, esp that of Aristotle
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archaic a sense organ, regarded as an instrument for acquiring knowledge
Etymology
Origin of organon
First recorded in 1580–90; from Greek órganon; see organ
Example Sentences
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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 • Jan. 6, 2019
He worked out the first "organon," or manual of logical thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he corrected Aristotle's method of examining nature, instituting a "new organon" of inductive logic�accumulating facts, theorizing later.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had of course inherited the technology from Ktesibios's hydraulis organ - and the name organum likewise comes from the Greek organon, meaning instrument or tool.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Natural science has matter as problem, and the law of causality as organon.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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