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'Philosophy of Mathematics', 'A Short History of German Philosophy' and 'Mental Files'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
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Indexicals apply to singular thought, and mental files have essentially indexical features [Recanati]
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Indexicality is closely related to singularity, exploiting our direct relations with things [Recanati]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files
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Files can be confused, if two files correctly have a single name, or one file has two names [Recanati]
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Encylopedic files have further epistemic links, beyond the basic one [Recanati]
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Singular thoughts need a mental file, and an acquaintance relation from file to object [Recanati]
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Expected acquaintance can create a thought-vehicle file, but without singular content [Recanati]
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An 'indexed' file marks a file which simulates the mental file of some other person [Recanati]
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Reference by mental files is Millian, in emphasising acquaintance, rather than satisfaction [Recanati]
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The reference of a file is fixed by what it relates to, not the information it contains [Recanati]
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A mental file treats all of its contents as concerning one object [Recanati]
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There are transient 'demonstrative' files, habitual 'recognitional' files, cumulative 'encyclopedic' files [Recanati]
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Files are hierarchical: proto-files, then first-order, then higher-order encyclopedic [Recanati]
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A file has a 'nucleus' through its relation to the object, and a 'periphery' of links to other files [Recanati]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
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The content of thought is what is required to understand it (which involves hearers) [Recanati]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
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Mental files are individual concepts (thought constituents) [Recanati]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
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Simple types can be apprehended through their tokens, via abstraction [Shapiro]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
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We can apprehend structures by focusing on or ignoring features of patterns [Shapiro]
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We can focus on relations between objects (like baseballers), ignoring their other features [Shapiro]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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Abstract objects might come by abstraction over an equivalence class of base entities [Shapiro]
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