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n. A set of principles for use in scientific or philosophical investigation.

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

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

n. An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (“Novum Organon”) of part of his treatise on philosophical method.

n. An organ; an instrument.

n. An instrument of thought.

n. Hence A code of rules or principles for scientific investigation.

n. Also organum.

n. a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge

"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"

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