organon
IPA: ˈɔrgʌnɑn
noun
- A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
- The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic.
- The standard collection of the works of Aristotelian logic.
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Examples of "organon" in Sentences
- [717] On the word organon, a tool, as used of the Word of God, cf. Nestorius in Marius Merc.
- To use Stumpf's terms, they are the atrium and the organon of all sciences and of philosophy.
- In his systematic work on logic he pleaded for a unity of logic and metaphysics as found in the Aristotelian organon.
- He defines logic as being neither a science nor an art, but, in keeping with the traditional meaning of the word organon, just an instrument
- Knowledge is here considered from the practical point of view, as a weapon in the struggle for life, as an "organon" which has been continuously in use for generations.
- Beyond the general principle of utility, therefore, we have to consider the 'organon' constructed by him to give effect to a general principle too vague to be applied in detail.
- Most Neoplatonists followed Alexander of Aphrodisias in regarding logic not as a separate philosophical discipline (the Stoic view) but rather as philosophy's tool, its organon.
- Is it not that this is the master organon for giving men the two precious qualities of breadth of interest and balance of judgment; multiplicity of sympathies and steadiness of sight?
- Rather, he appears to have seen it as an organon for the acquisition of knowledge from unquestionable first principles; in addition he wanted to use it in order to help make clear the epistemic foundations on which our knowledge rests.
- The term (Latin super = above; Greek organon = tool) was coined in 1911 by the great American ant expert and biologist William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937) in an essay titled “The Ant-Colony as an Organism” and is defined as “a collection of single creatures that together possess the functional organization implicit in the formal definition of organism.”
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