organon

noun

1. A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.

   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.

   1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.

2. The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic.

   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.

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon). Doublet of organ, organum, and orgue.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry organon (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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