The phrase "capture a thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing the act of recording or expressing an idea or concept that comes to mind.
Example: "During the meeting, I tried to capture a thought that could improve our project."
Alternatives: "record an idea" or "express a notion."
I think you can capture a thought by a vector".
"There'll be a lot of people who argue against it, who say you can't capture a thought like that," he added.
You know what I think we're going to get to, at the end of the line past VR, is a world where more than just being able to capture what's going on in a scene, I think you're going to be able to capture a thought.
"You're going to just be able to capture a thought, what you're thinking or feeling in kind of its ideal and perfect form in your head, and be able to share that with the world in a format where they can get that," Zuckerberg said in a live video Q&A broadcast from his Facebook page.
It takes a bit of practice to be able to look at your outline, script or note cards, capture a thought or two and then come up and deliver that information while looking at your audience.
As such, scientists can't yet reproduce or capture an explicit thought like "I want to go skydiving" by peering into the mind alone.
The social contract, according to Kant, is thus a hypothetical thought experiment, meant to capture an idea of public reason.
Unlike novels, poems are not, by and large, in the business of narrative; rather, their aim (and I'm generalising wildly here) is to capture a moment – a thought, a feeling, an image, an atmosphere – and deliver it.
The Txtr's A-Z, a dictionary compiled by Andrew John, points out that mobile texting literally puts a price on waffle, while "ingenious abbreviations have been contrived to capture a vaguely philosophical thought, a loving sentiment or a beautifully crafted obscenity".
A visual model captures and freezes a thought in time.
It might provide a way to capture the thought that A-properties or facts are not a further ontological commitment over and above the B-properties or facts, but this is controversial.
