organon

See also: Organon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon).

Noun

organon (plural organons)

1. 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.

   Synonym: organum

2. The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• Noongar, Rangoon

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Esperanto

Noun

organon

1. accusative singular of organo