The phrase "a central thought of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the main idea or theme of a text, concept, or argument.
Example: "The central thought of the article revolves around the importance of sustainability in modern business practices."
Alternatives: "a key idea of" or "a main concept of".
In Section 1, we informally sketched the central thought of the RTT, namely, that we can use the T-biconditionals to generate a revision rule — a rule for revising a hypothesis about the extension of the truth predicate.
The central thought, spilling in block letters across multiple pages, is "a throw of the dice will never abolish chance".
Miller stressed the importance of recoding the reorganization of information into fewer units with more bits of information per unit as a central feature of human thought processes.
Moreover, Viereck's belief that the United States could be a moderating influence, confronting the forces that threaten freedom and democracy without succumbing to liberal optimism, became a central tenet of conservative thought and, with the arrival of neoconservatives in positions of power in Washington, beginning in the nineteen-eighties, of American foreign policy.
But this was only a reason to accept it, if in general it is reasonable to accept certain principles (such as the Uniformity of Nature) which are not self-evident and which cannot be proved, but which bring order and coherence into a central part of our thought.
Feeding interactions, the primary mechanism by which energy and resources are passed between organisms, are fundamental to the functioning of ecosystems, and so networks of feeding interactions, or food webs, have long been a central paradigm of ecological thought [2].
Kelemen (1999a) argues that teleological thinking is a central component of adults' everyday thought.
The cultivation and maintenance of its support was a central principle of Churchill's thought.
The idea of continuity played a central role in the thought of the great French mathematician Henri Poincaré[41] (1854–1912).
Persistent pondering over negative self-related thoughts is a central feature of depressive psychopathology.
