Definition of "organon" in English

noun

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

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

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