Yes but I think you might also find that a lot of times this mental abstraction/short hand is where bias lives. This is why it's so effective to verbalize problems. You frequently see patterns and logical fallacies only once you verbalize a train of thought. Therapy in general is a great example of this, but also the "rubber ducky trick" in software where you explain the problem to an imaginary rubber ducky sitting on your monitor (or call over a colleague and explain it to them etc.) and you magically figure out the problem just by verbalizing. Happens all the time for me at least, speaking of bias :)