We think by association. We can sometimes tighten up the process when there's a formal logical framework that applies, but it's not as natural or automatic.

What writing changes is that in words, you have to make it explicit how one thing leads to another. Partly, that's just due to the imposition of sentence structure.

Ironically, this is precisely the crazy thing about Trumpspeech: it's just associations - vibe-chaining if you will.