Definitions for organon

organon or·ga·non

Spelling: [awr-guh-non]
IPA: /ˈɔr gəˌnɒn/

Organon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in organon (agnnoor).

Definitions for organon

noun

  1. an instrument of thought or knowledge.
  2. Philosophy. a system of rules or principles of demonstration or investigation.

Origin of organon

1580-90; Greek órganon; see organ

Examples for organon

Logic is the doctrine of the organon of science, and when applied is the organon of science.

The completely extended application of such an organon would afford us a system of pure reason.

He describes special logic as the organon of this or that science.

This it was which won recognition for an organon other than the mathematical.

No man can invent an organon for writing tragedies and Epic poems.

Rhetoric was the organon of Roman education, and declamation was the aim of rhetoric.

Thus the mistakes inevitable in the isolated study of an imperfect organon could not henceforth be made.

The former may be called elemental logic—the latter, the organon of this or that particular science.

No man can invent an organon for writing tragedies and epic poems.

The former if complete would be an organon of Discovery, the latter of Proof.

Word Value for organon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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