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What Ideonomy Can Do

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    1. Heighten aesthetic appreciation
    2. Show how things are alike
    3. Show alternatives
    4. Improve analysis of situations
    5. UncoverAnomalies
    6.  Help answer questions
    7. Structure argument
    8. Explore assmptions
    9. Characterize behavior
    10. Analyze the nature of beliefs
    11. Indicate the consequences of beliefs
    12. Define the canonical possibilities of a thing
    13. Assess capacity
    14. Identify the causes  of things
    15. Clarify chains of events
    16. Help characterize the role of chance
    17. Characterize change
    18. Fertilize character
    19. Expand civilization
    20. Show how to classify things
    21. Show how things can be usefully combined
    22. Increase understanding of complexity
    23. Reveal the many concauses of a thing
    24. Analyze conflict
    25. Deepen conscience
    26. Show what is and is not conserved
    27. Uncover content
    28. Identify contradictions
    29. Map the structure of controls.
    30. Suggest creations
    31. Augment creativity
    32. Refine criteria
    33. Heighten critical awareness
    34. Take account of cycles
    35. Improve debate
    36. Help one avoid deception
    37. Define concepts
    38. Aid description
    39. Illuminate how a thing develops
    40. Diagrammatize concepts
    41. Reconcile differences
    42. Suggest the fundamental dimensions of things
    43. Define all physical dimensions.
    44. Accelerate discoveries
    45. Facilitate discussion
    46. Distinguish things
    47. Maximize diversity
    48. Depict dynamics
    49. Clarify economics
    50. Define effects
    51. Suggest the effects of human nature
    52. Aid engineering
    53. Show how a thing affects its environment
    54. Show how a thing is affected by its environment
    55. Demonstrate equivalences between things
    56. Classify human errors
    57. Aid evaluation
    58. Clarify events
    59. Illuminate evil
    60. Provide examples
    61. Suggest examples
    62. Suggest exceptions to laws
    63. Consider excuses
    64. Suggest experiments
    65. Extend things elsewhere
    66. Point to extrement possibilities
    67. Unearth fallacies
    68. Originate new fields of research
    69. Identify flows
    70. Point to all the forms things can have
    71. Advance the foundataion of a subject
    72. Erect frameworks for though
    73. Enumerate the functions of a thing
    74. Foster wisdom about the future
    75. Generalize notios
    76. Suggest goals
    77. Show paths to goals
    78. Clarify good
    79. Help treat the hardest things
    80. Describe hierarchies
    81. Unveil higher realities
    82. Help one think about the history of a thing
    83. Expand horizons
    84. Develop an idea
    85. Advance ideals
    86. Dramatize ideas and facts
    87. Reduce ignorance
    88. Pierce illusions
    89. Discipline imagination
    90. Help one know what is important
    91. Help describe the individuality of a thing
    92. Improve industrial goods
    93. Point to infinities
    94. Help extract maximum information from a single datum
    95. Propose innovations
    96. Accentuate intelligence
    97. Enable one to plot the successive interactions of two things
    98. Show the interdependences of ideas
    99. Suggest new interests
    100. Multiply inventions
    101. Invert things
    102. Give one greater access to existing knowledge
    103. Help bring the totality of human knowledge into play in the treatment of a single thing
    104. Improve the use of human knowledge
    105. Advance language
    106. Identify laws
    107. Aid learning
    108. Reveal the limitations of things
    109. Enhance logical rigor
    110. Aid mastery of a subject
    111. Stimulate the advance of pure and applied mathematics
    112. Enhance meaning
    113. Improve the use and understanding of metaphor
    114. Develop methodologies
    115. Help model things
    116. Lessen mortmain of the stifling effect of habit, traditio, and orthodoxy.
    117. Identify needs
    118. Depict networks
    119. Suggest higher niveaux
    120. Treat obscurity and ambiguity
    121. Help circumvent obstacles
    122. Bring to light important omissions and neglects
    123. Help explore and exploit the omniverse
    124. Suggest opportunities
    125. Point to the ways in which opposites can meet and merge
    126. Reveal underlying order
    127. Explicate origin
    128. Exploit paradoxes
    129. Clarify pathology
    130. Help one discern patterns
    131. Aid perception
    132. Perfect things
    133. Show how to see things from all perspectives
    134. Improve the planning of research
    135. Show a thng's potential
    136. Rationalize practices
    137. Predict things
    138. Curtail prejudices
    139. Enable preparation
    140. Describe the present
    141. Help one formulate principles
    142. Improve the characterization of probabilities
    143. Explain processes
    144. Aid proof and disproof
    145. Help quantify anything and everything
    146. Show what questions should be asked about something
    147. Describe range and distribution
    148. Help study reactions
    149. Catalyze reform
    150. Aid research into new regimes
    151. Reveal relationships between seemingly unrelated things
    152. Coordinate diverse research
    153. Create new research tools
    154. Discover new resrouces
    155. Supply Rosetta stones
    156. Give insight into rules
    157. Construct scenarios
    158. Discourage trivial scholarship
    159. Make science even more scientific
    160. Increase security
    161. Enable self-criticism
    162. Explicate sequences and series
    163. Find shortcuts and simplifications
    164. Train new skills
    165. Enrich speculation
    166. Find stories in everything
    167. Improve strategy
    168. Lessen stupidity
    169. Foresee surprises
    170. Unravel symbolism
    171. Augment reachying
    172. Originate technology
    173. Test notions
    174. Transcend things
    175. Elucidate transformations
    176. Transvalue things
    177. Define types of things
    178. Suggest ultimates
    179. Help one cope with the unfamiliar
    180. Unify things
    181. Suggest uses
    182. Suggest the diverse values of a thing
    183. Amplify wealth
    184. Interrelate wholes and parts
    185. Heighten wisdom
    186. Expand our world view
     
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