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Organon

noun
1.
A system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge.





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"Organon" Quotes from Famous Books



... b. about 1214, at or near Ilchester; became a friar of the Franciscan Order; studied natural philosophy and wrote, besides other works, the "Opus Majus" (described as "at once the 'Encyclopaedia' and the 'Organon' of the 13th ...
— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
... the father of logic, and Hegel and Kant think there has been no improvement upon it since his day. This became to him the real organon of science. "He supposed it was not merely the instrument of thought, but the instrument of investigation." Hence it was futile for purposes of discovery, although important to aid processes of thought. Induction and syllogism are the two great features of his system of logic. The ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord


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