Mental Files: Replies to my Critics

Abstract

The primacy of acquaintance Coliva and Belleri write: '[An] aspect of Recanati's proposal that is not entirely clear is its precise scope.For we are told that mental files are mental indexicals which depend, for their existence, on there being an epistemically rewarding relation, in the form of acquaintance, between a subject and the object the file is a file of.On the face of it, however, this would entail that mental files are quite limited, for we do not seem to be acquainted with a lot of entities that we are nevertheless able to think about.We are not acquainted with non-existing and fictional entities; nor are we acquainted with past or future entities, let alone with abstract ones, like numbers or logical entities.'(Coliva and Belleri: 109-10)

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