The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together:
— I couldn't follow his train of thought.

synoniem: thread.

Roget 514a: analogy, association, association of ideas.    metaphor etc. 521.    analogical thinking; free association; train of thought.   

Roget 451: thought; exercitation of the intellect^†, exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application etc. (attention) 457.    abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study etc. (inattention) 458; reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch.    association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas.    after thought, mature thought; reconsideration, second thoughts; retrospection etc. (memory) 505; excogitation^†; examination etc. (inquiry) 461; invention etc. (imagination) 515.    thoughtfulness etc. adj.. ... meer laten zien

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