organon

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How can they abase grand humanity to the level of their social organon, affecting to control it with their arbitrary absolutisms, their mammon deification, their mimic infallibility!

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

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  • Mathematics is the organon, says W. pedagogically. —  Spurious
  • Medieval logic is usually divided into the branches that derived from Aristotle's organon - the 'logica vetus' and 'logica nova', and those invented in the Middle Ages, the 'logica modernorum'. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • How can they abase grand humanity to the level of their social organon, affecting to control it with their arbitrary absolutisms, their mammon deification, their mimic infallibility! —  She and I, Volume 1
  • The completely extended application of such an organon would afford us —  The Critique of Pure Reason
  • The former may be called elemental logic -- the latter, the organon of this or that particular science. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
 

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  1. Greek, tool, organ of the body, instrument; see werg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek ὄργανον, an instrument, organ: see organ. Cf. organum.
 

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/ˈɔrgənɑn/
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