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When a reader or listener "loses the train of thought" (i.e., loses the relation between consecutive sentences or phrases, or the relation between non-verbal concepts in an argument or presentation),
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When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
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By Consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse.
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Edward Parmelee Morris, "On Principles and Methods in Latin Syntax" (1901), Chapter VI:
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The term "train of thoughts" was introduced and elaborated as early as in 1651 by
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The First Part: Of Man, Chapter III: Of the Consequence or Train of Imagination
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