A science such as biology is not regarded as less plausible because of the fact that, despite its use of concepts, it is unable to give a rigorous and essential definition of 'concept. Once again, although ideonomy is the science of ideas in general, it is particularly interested in discovering, developing, and using ideas that are possessed of the greatest possible generality. In other words, the more general given ideas are, the more interest they are apt to have to ideonomy. At least this is true as a first approximation, since other properties condition the ideonomic interest and importance of different ideas, including the fundamentality, the simplicity and complexity, and the generative and explanatory power of ideas. Nature of Science Perhaps the most meaningful procedure to define ideonomy would be to say first what science in general is, and then to specialize this definition.
Science is organized knowledge and systematized inquiry.
It is the rigorous separation of truth from speculation, the methodical distillation of massive appearances and possibilities into the least and simplest realities. It is the progressive discovery and employment of the most powerful principles of reasoning applicable in general or effective in specific cases. It is the classification of things into analogous and derived types. It is the discovery of the practical uses of knowledge. It is the identification, and fitting together, of the continuities and discontinuities of things.