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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Organon  \Or"ga*non\,  Organum  \Or"ga*num\,  n.  [NL.  organon,  L. 
  organum.  See  {Organ}.] 
  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.  --Sir.  W.  Hamilton. 

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