organon

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

An organ; an instrument.

An instrument of thought.

Hence A code of rules or principles for scientific investigation.

Also organum.

An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; — a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (“Novum Organon”) of part of his treatise on philosophical method.

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

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

a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge