Public Organon

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."

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Bacon

"Anticipations are a firm enough basis for conscent, for even if men all went mad in the same way they might agree one with another well enough."
-Francis Bacon