Full Idea
Mental files should be seen as a device for keeping track of when objects are coordinated (represented as-the-same) and, rather than understand coordination in terms of mental files, we should understand mental files in terms of coordination.
Gist of Idea
Mental files are devices for keeping track of basic coordination of objects
Source
Kit Fine (Semantic Relationism [2007], 3.A)
Book Reference
Fine,Kit: 'Semantic Relationism' [OUP 2007], p.68
A Reaction
Personally I think that the metaphor of a 'label' is much closer to the situation than that of a 'file'. Thus my concept of Cicero is labelled 'Tully', 'Roman', 'orator', 'philosophical example'... My problem is to distinguish the concept from its labels.