ABSTRACT
This chapter strengthens the author’s view of thought-content individuation by way of arguing that it is not committed to the problems that some accounts of singular beliefs have been charged with. It is shown that indexical beliefs are singular beliefs no matter whether they are subject to acquaintance constraints or not. This enables us to bypass a time-worn debate about the relation between singular and descriptive beliefs as well as make it manifest that in a relevant respect, indexical beliefs are distinct from other beliefs. It is also forthcoming that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their diversity on the surface level. Following this, it is argued that in having a persisting belief about an individual, the subject is not thinking about it via a mental file, eschewing thus the charge that has been levelled at mental file accounts.
