The phrase "a starting point for thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an idea or concept that serves as an initial basis for further thought or discussion.
Example: "This article serves as a starting point for thinking about the implications of climate change on global economies."
Alternatives: "a foundation for consideration" or "an initial framework for thought".
A report released by the National Research Council nearly a decade ago, BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists NRCC, 2003), provides a starting point for thinking about how glycoscience-based examples can be effectively incorporated into classes.
It only provides a starting point for thinking about issues that do matter in the real world.
Your net worth is just a starting point for thinking about big losses.
As early as Logical Syntax (Carnap 1934/1937, 244/316 17) Carnap had suggested that Wittgenstein's remarks in the Tractatus about ranges (Tractatus, 4.463) might be a starting point for thinking about probability.
Pettit's account presupposes the legitimacy of domestic democracies that ensure nondomination as a starting point for thinking about a legitimate international order, and he explicitly rejects the idea of a world state, modeled on a domestic republican regime, as an infeasible remedy for the challenges posed by domination in an international context (2010, 81; but see Koenig-Archibugi 2011).
Work on TCs in biology provides a starting point for thinking about possible TCs in biochemistry.
Then, she says, "I store up phrases, a bank of words that are the starting point for thinking about an accumulation of physical stuff".
But what if you take China - now with the world's largest number of Internet users, fast-growing technology sector, and a strong voice in global Internet governance debates - as your starting point for thinking about where the global Internet is headed?
The number of people in Britain who identify with religious faith – who see faith as the starting point for thinking about the world and their judgments about right and wrong, indeed as the key to their whole identity – remains very large.
A new working paper maps out critical starting points for thinking about explanation in AI systems.
