ideonomy

noun

1. A combinatorial "science of ideas", for the categorization and analysis of any kind of idea.

   uncountable

   According to Gunkel, ideonomy is at the same time a fundamental science and applied science. The subject of research is ideas as such and the applicable laws.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ideonomy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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