This is about manipulating ideas, as such, while ignoring their content as much as possible. For example, an idea can be made more coherent or an idea can be compared against the problem it purports to solve.
Category: manipulating ideas
manipulating ideas, for example, sharpening, merging, splitting
Metaideation
A subset of IdeaVanguard, MetaIdeation deals with thinking about ideas and doing things to ideas.
and which relates to doing things to (not with) ideas.