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‖ organon|ˈɔːgənɒn|
[a. Gr. ὄργανον instrument, bodily organ, etc.; the title of Aristotle's logical treatises; = ‘instrument’ of all reasoning: cf. organum. Formerly naturalized in sense 1, with pl. -ons (so F. organon, -ons); now treated as alien in sense 2 with pl. in -a.]
†1. A bodily organ, esp. as an instrument of the soul or mind: = organ n.1 4, 6. Obs.
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. v. iii, The soul, Wanting those organons by which it moves, Cannot endure, by argument of art. a1597Peele David & Bethsabe Wks. (Rtldg.) 484/1 A more than human skill May feed the organons of all my sense. 1629Hubert Hist. Edw. II, lxvi, Our Mother Nature..By whom we haue our apt Organons assign'd.
2. An instrument of thought or knowledge; a means by which some process of reasoning, discovery, etc., is carried on; esp. a system of rules or principles of demonstration or investigation; spec. title of the logical writings of Aristotle.
a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 193 It is easy to impugne the Organon of faith, or Doctrinall principles, but not easy to compose it. [c1645Howell Lett. v. x. 11 When you have devour'd the Organon, you will find Philosophie far more delightfull and pleasing to your palat.] 1823De Quincey Lett. Educ. ii. Wks. 1860 XIV. 26 An organon of the human understanding is as much above it. 1845Gladstone Glean. (1879) VII. 156 A sound view of it [probability] is not indeed ethical knowledge itself, but is the organon, by means of which that knowledge is to be rightly handled. 1864Bowen Logic ii. 40 It [Logic] is not an organon of discovery. 1884J. Parker Apost. Life III. 346 Human intellect ..as the organon by which we are to acquaint ourselves with God. |