Abstract

The chapter is devoted to discussing an objection which Angel Pinillos raised to the mental file account of _de jure_ co-reference. According to the objection, it is possible for A and B, and for B and C, to be co-referential _de jure_, even though A and C are not. But if the relation of _de jure_ co-reference rested on the identity of the mental files respectively associated with each of the terms, it should be transitive, since identity is a transitive relation.