Organon
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The Organon (Ancient Greek: Ὄργανον, meaning "instrument, tool, organ") is the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logical analysis and dialectic. The name Organon was given by Aristotle's followers, the Peripatetics, who maintained against the Stoics that Logic was "an instrument" of Philosophy.[1]
Aristotle never uses the title Organon to refer to his logical works. The book, according to M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire, was not called "Organon" before the 15th century, and the treatises were collected into one volume, as is supposed, about the time of Andronicus of Rhodes; and it was translated into Latin by Boethius about the 6th century.[1]
The six works of Organon are as follows:
Bekker number |
Work | Latin name |
Logic | ||
Organon | ||
1a | Categories | Categoriae |
16a | On Interpretation | De Interpretatione |
24a | Prior Analytics | Analytica Priora |
71a | Posterior Analytics | Analytica Posteriora |
100a | Topics | Topica |
164a | On Sophistical Refutations | De Sophisticis Elenchis |