Full Idea
Mental files are the mental counterparts of singular terms.
Gist of Idea
Mental files are the counterparts of singular terms
Source
François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 3.3)
Book Reference
Recanati,François: 'Mental Files' [OUP 2012], p.35
A Reaction
A thoroughly satisfactory theory. We can build up a picture of filing merging, duplication, ambiguity, error etc. Eventually neuroscience will map the whole system, and we will have cracked it.