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A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.
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A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
Examples of organum in a Sentence
It has been called by Whewell at once the Encyclopaedia and the Organum of the 13th century.
Boyle's great merit as a scientific investigator is that he carried out the principles which Bacon preached in the Novum Organum.
His great work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis (Bordeaux, 1618); the copy in the British Museum contains a number of highlyeulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer.
But, unfortunately, he did not mean the logical inferences described in the Organon and the Novum organum.
There are two old logics which still remain indispensable, Aristotle's Organon and Bacon's Novum Organum.
For the rest he was too Aristotelian, if we take the word broadly enough, or, as the result of his Cambridge studies, 3 Bacon, Novum Organum, ii.
Hobbes developed the nominalism which had been the hallmark of revolt against scholastic orthodoxy, and, when he brings this into relation with the analysis and synthesis of scientific A notable formula of Bacon's Novum Organum ii.
This division is represented, though only imperfectly, by the Novum Organum, particularly book ii.
A short introductory sketch of the requisites of such a natural history, which, according to Bacon, is essential, necessary, the basis totius negotii, is given in the tract Parasceve, appended to the Novum Organum.
This supposition receives some support from the manner in which the fifth part is spoken of in the Novum Organum, i.
But, before proceeding to unfold his method, Bacon found it necessary to enter in considerable detail upon the general subject of the obstacles to progress, and devoted nearly the whole of the first book of the Organum to the examination of them.
The doctrine of the kinds of fallacies or general classes of errors into which the human mind is prone to fall, appears in many of the works written before the Novum Organum, and the treatment of them varies in some respects.
The classification in the Organum, however, not only has the author's sanction, but has received the stamp of historical acceptation; and comparison of the earlier notices, though a point of literary interest, has no important philosophic bearing.
The inductive method, so far as exhibited in the Organum, is exemplified by an investigation into the nature of heat.
In this demand for a complete natural history, Bacon also felt that he was original, and he was deeply impressed with the necessity for it; 2 in fact, he seems occasionally to place an even higher value upon it than upon his Organum.
Like all epoch-making works, the Novum Organum gave expression to ideas which were already beginning to be in the air.
It may be freely admitted that in the domain of logic there is nothing in the Organum that has not been more instructively analysed either by Aristotle himself or in modern works; at the same time, there is probably no work which is a better and more stimulating introduction to logical study.
Much later, the University at Notre Dame in Paris saw the creation of a new kind of music called organum.