Organon
(Gr. organon) The title traditionally given to the body of Aristotle’s logical treatises. The designation appears to have originated among the Peripatetics after Aristotle’s time, and expresses their view that logic is not a part of philosophy (as the Stoics maintained) but rather the instrument (organon) of philosophical inquiry. See Aristotelianism. — G.R.M.
In Kant. A system of principles by which pure knowledge may be acquired and established.
Cf. Fr. Bacon’s Novum Organum. — O.F.K.