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Ideas for 'Posthumous notes', 'Mental Files' and 'Dialogue on Things and Words'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
16354 Indexicality is closely related to singularity, exploiting our direct relations with things [Recanati]
18409 Indexicals apply to singular thought, and mental files have essentially indexical features [Recanati]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files
16361 A mental file treats all of its contents as concerning one object [Recanati]
16371 Files can be confused, if two files correctly have a single name, or one file has two names [Recanati]
16373 Encylopedic files have further epistemic links, beyond the basic one [Recanati]
16375 Singular thoughts need a mental file, and an acquaintance relation from file to object [Recanati]
16377 Expected acquaintance can create a thought-vehicle file, but without singular content [Recanati]
16378 An 'indexed' file marks a file which simulates the mental file of some other person [Recanati]
16387 Reference by mental files is Millian, in emphasising acquaintance, rather than satisfaction [Recanati]
16358 The reference of a file is fixed by what it relates to, not the information it contains [Recanati]
16367 There are transient 'demonstrative' files, habitual 'recognitional' files, cumulative 'encyclopedic' files [Recanati]
16368 Files are hierarchical: proto-files, then first-order, then higher-order encyclopedic [Recanati]
16370 A file has a 'nucleus' through its relation to the object, and a 'periphery' of links to other files [Recanati]
18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
16381 The content of thought is what is required to understand it (which involves hearers) [Recanati]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
16365 Mental files are individual concepts (thought constituents) [Recanati]