Re: Settle a strange question: Is a watch an organon?
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specifically : a body of principles of scientific or philosophic investigation
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A watch is not a body of principles. Your friend is misreading the definition.
An organon is an instrument for gaining knowledge ONLY when it is a body of principles.
For example:
House Cat - A feline specifically of the genus felix domesticus
What your friend is saying is equivalent to saying ZOMG a lion is a house cat.
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