Another mental language is used for sequences such as a chain of events. We employ several mental languages because no one language seems to have the proper flexibility to easily express the various kinds of material our mind is concerned with. By elaborating upon what can be directly seen, we add a great deal of important information to our internal description of the world. Sherlock Holmes was especially good at elaboration, and you may wish to examine a charming example from The Red-Headed League . So, we make inferences about the emotions of others.
Inferences are just another name for elaboration.
After developing a well-elaborated description of our surroundings, we are in a position to make decisions . Making decisions is actually a relatively simple process. Then, during three or four days' consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I endeavor to estimate the respective weights. . . . Plan Having reached a decision, it would seem we would be ready for action.