Definition of "organon"

organon

noun
plural organons
1. A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, book I (The Sword in the Stone)