ideonomy

== English == === Etymology === Championed as the science of ideas by Patrick M. Gunkel (1947–2017), from ideo- +‎ -nomy. Although Gunkel stated on the “About” page of his ideonomy website that “supposedly the word ideonomy was first coined by the French Encyclopedists” to refer to a science of ideas, no direct evidence of this coinage has been found to date. === Noun === ideonomy (uncountable) A combinatorial "science of ideas", for the categorization and analysis of any kind of idea.