organon
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Definition of organon
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
“1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. Hence pure reason is that which contains the principles for cognizing something absolutely a priori. An organon of pure reason would be a sum total of those principles.”
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noun
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A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
“1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. Hence pure reason is that which contains the principles for cognizing something absolutely a priori. An organon of pure reason would be a sum total of those principles.”
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The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic.
“He thought that it might not be so bad with Merlyn, who might be able to make even the old Organon interesting, particularly if he would do some magic.”
name
- The standard collection of the works of Aristotelian logic.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon). Doublet of organ, organum, and orgue.
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