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ORGANON (Gr. 6pyavov, See also:instrument, from Epyov, See also:work) , the name given to See also:Aristotle's logical See also:treatises. They are so called because See also:logic is itself neither a speculative See also:science nor a See also:practical See also:art in the See also:ordinary sense, but an aid or instrument to all scientific thought. See also:Francis See also:Bacon, regarding the Aristotelian logic as he understood it as of no avail, gave to his own See also:treatise the name Novum Organum in the belief that he had discovered a new inductive logic which would See also:lead necessarily to the acquisition of new scientific knowledge. Compare also See also:Whewell's Novum Organism Renovatum and See also:Lambert's Neues Organon. In See also:medieval See also:music the See also:term was applied in a similar sense to See also:early attempts at improvised See also:counterpoint i.e. a See also:part sung as an See also:accompaniment above or below the See also:melody or See also:plain-See also:song; it consisted of 8ths and 5ths (or 4ths) added to the plainsong.

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