The
Organon (Greek: Ὄργανον, meaning "instrument, tool, organ") is the standard collection of
Aristotle's six works on
logic. The name
Organon was given by Aristotle's followers, the
Peripatetics. They are as follows:
Constitution of the texts
The order of the works is not chronological (which is now hard to determine) but was deliberately chosen by
Theophrastus to constitute a well-structured system. Indeed, parts of them seem to be a scheme of a lecture on logic. The arrangement of the works was made by
Andronicus of Rhodes around 40 BC.