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Ideas for 'Elements of Mind', 'Mental Files' and 'Dynamic Logics'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / d. Singular terms

16357	Mental files are the counterparts of singular terms [Recanati]
	Full Idea: Mental files are the mental counterparts of singular terms.
	From: François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 3.3)
	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.

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / c. Theory of definite descriptions

4098	The theory of descriptions supports internalism, since they are thinkable when the object is non-existent [Crane]
	Full Idea: The theory of descriptions gives a model of internalist intentionality, in that it describes cases where the thinkability of a belief does not depend on the existence of a specific object.
	From: Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 4.36)
	A reaction: So what do externalists say about the theory? Surely a reference to 'water' can't entail the existence of water?