Sidebar
This is an old revision of the document!
Welcome to Polynyms.com
Collecting Idea Sets Across Cultures and Academic Disciplines
A Polynym (or Polyad1) is simply a group of related ideas: an idea set. All cultures and fields of study use idea sets to break down and better understand complex systems—from Yin/Yang to the Seven Deadly Sins.
Polynyms.com enables people like you to help build the largest collection of idea sets ever made.
Bennett1 and Miller2 showed small sets of ideas can help us understand how we think. We hope this site will attract a diverse hive mind to collect idea sets.
Please help this research and share your thoughts! Read the FAQ for more.
THANK YOU
HOW TO USE THIS SITE
This wiki has documentation, articles and links, while a database-driven part of the site lets you add, chart and mangle idea sets.
To contribute, please add idea sets to the database then add any comments as articles.
See Nymology for games and other activities using idea sets!
1 Polynyms are distinct from N-grams in that they represent an intended whole.
2 Benettian Systematics (J. Bennett)
3 The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (G. Miller)
