organon
See also: Organon
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon). Doublet of organ, organum, and orgue.
Noun
editorganon (plural organons)
- A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
- Synonym: organum
- 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.
- The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic.
- 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
- 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.
Anagrams
editEsperanto
editNoun
editorganon
- accusative singular of organo