'ordinary thought' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an idea or opinion that is widely-held or commonly accepted. For example, "It is an ordinary thought that the more you practice something, the better you will become at it."
Autistic thought isn't wholly incompatible with ordinary thought, he says; it's just a variation on it, a more extreme example.
He discusses at length the relation between self-consciousness and the first person and how fundamental the first person is in ordinary thought.
Once again it is useful to begin from Kant, who distinguished two uses of the imagination: the first in ordinary thought and perception, the second in aesthetic experience.
The scientist, in this way of thinking, does not offer a truer description of the phenomena of which ordinary thought could make no sense but merely gives a connected description of a selected set of phenomena.
This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal.
The best examples of the work are then published in the Journal of Ordinary Thought.
"You have to find weight in ordinary thoughts and language".
Schools vary widely, aiming to achieve total absorption in the present and a release from ordinary thoughts.
These are pretty ordinary thoughts, but ones that the dull noise coming from Westminster renders almost exotic – and essential.
At a time when many Americans long to believe that electing a black president cancels out a history of slavery, prejudice and entrenched inequality, Mr Mamet reminds the viewer of the insidious forms of racism that poison ordinary thoughts.
Barker has never been a thrilling stylist, and can often sound ordinary: "thoughts floated to the surface of her mind and burst like bubbles"; "the ache of his absence was like nothing she'd ever experienced before".
