"central thought" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to an idea that is of central importance or the main point of a piece of writing. For example, "The central thought of the essay was that global warming is a critical issue that needs immediate attention."
I had a new central thought: Hey, don't they have any hard trails on this mountain?
Here was my central thought: Who names a trail Hanging Tree?
The central thought, spilling in block letters across multiple pages, is "a throw of the dice will never abolish chance".
Other major software makers have announced similar efforts to make security "not an add-on, but a central thought" in software design, Mr. Clarke said.
Since then that central thought, "Shape, Respond, Prepare," could be seen at every military installation worldwide and as the centerpiece of any briefing on global strategy.
"The Adults" is much tamer, and besides, Ms. Espach expresses her book's central thought more colloquially: "You are always learning how to say goodbye to whoever you were at the dinner table the night before".
As theoretical framework for our search into factors that relate to a healthy lifestyle among cancer survivors, we applied the central thoughts and concepts from social cognitive models: the Reasoned Action Approach, the Attitude-Social influence-Efficacy (ASE) model and its successor the Integrated Model for Behavior Change (I-Change-Model) [ 24– 27].
This was the central idea in Śāntarakṣita's thought as well, however, he was a commentator on both Nāgārjuna and Dharmakīrti in equal measure.
Indeed, that there is a real standard of beauty (including moral beauty)—i.e., a standard with a real existence independent of human minds is perhaps the central idea of Shaftesbury's thought as a whole.
Skill is continually reinvented and always less central than thought.
Thank you to everyone who participated, and the authors — David D. Kirkpatrick and I — are taking the opportunity to answer some of the most central and thought-provoking questions here.
