The OED offers the following obsolete definition for "organon" :
"A bodily organ, esp. as an instrument of the soul or mind."
The Organon ("instrument") is also a title used to group together Aristotle's treatises on logic.
~http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/#AriLogWorOrg
The OED offers this definition of "public"
"Open to general observation, view, or knowledge; existing, performed, or carried out without concealment, so that all may see or hear."
Friday, March 9, 2012
"Prod me, even gently, to say more than I know and I will produce some noise, but not, in all likelihood, knowledge." -Owen Flanagan
