pected category of being that is more fundamental than either ideas
or things, or that transcends what is meant by both the "mental" and "physical''
aspects of reality.

<P>By placing all of the things and phenomena in a subject upon basic scales--as
of duration, time, Population, importance, complexity, or entropy--ideonomy
can call the mind's attention to what is only naturally the most and least
fundamental in a subject, to the way in which things derive their greater
or lesser fundamentality from one an