Full Idea
The role of a mental file is precisely to treat all the information as if it concerned one and the same object, from which it derives.
Gist of Idea
A mental file treats all of its contents as concerning one object
Source
François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 4.1)
Book Reference
Recanati,François: 'Mental Files' [OUP 2012], p.42
A Reaction
Recanati's book focuses entirely on singular objects, but we presumably have files for properties, generalisation, groups etc. Can they only be thought about if they are reified? Maybe.