The phrase "unit of thought" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase "unit of thought" to refer to an idea or concept, especially when discussing writing, literature, or the structure of a text. For example: "The author expresses their main point in each paragraph, creating a clear unit of thought."
Each graph or character corresponds to one meaningful unit of the language, not directly to a unit of thought.
We can think of each paragraph as a unit of thought that is focused on a single main topic.
He created what Richard Dawkins has called a meme – a cultural unit of thought that perpetuates itself through imitation, though mimesis.
The Nelsonian unit of thought is not the chapter but the paragraph, a mode that allows for deep swerves and juxtapositions, for the interspersing of anecdote and analysis.
The first you hear of Iggy Pop on "Fun House," the second album by his old band the Stooges, is "uuuhh!" This, perhaps, is a unit of thought; here it is a unit of music.
A meme is a unit of thought replicated by imitation; examples of memes, Richard Dawkins wrote, "are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches". Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are Internet ideas and images that go viral.
He even endorses Dawkins's notorious memes – those fashions in clothes or "units" of thought or snatches of song that are said to inhabit our minds – a fantasy so witheringly demolished by the formidable Mary Midgley.
Slightly later the Polish scholar Tadeusz Kowalski tried to interpret the "molecular" structure of Arabic literature the absence of large units of thought or architectural structure typical of the greater part of Islamic literatures, which might be described as "carpetlike".
And the hand or finger, sweeping down the page, was used to "pace" the eyes at increasingly faster speeds, while the reader was urged to concentrate not on single words but on groups of words -- sentences, clauses and the like -- that make up units of thought.
Note that the units of thought are at least logically prior to language, so language is not considered a pre-condition of thought.
All agreed that language was the result of a conscious assignation imposition of units of vocal sound (or expressions, alfâz) to units of thought (or meanings, ma'ânî).
