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    It is not the case that If narrow content is itself not transparently accessible to introspection, restricting privileged access to narrow content fails to preserve any epistemically significant first-person authority.

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    • 1.First-person authority need not extend to all mental content; we have justified beliefs about some inaccessible cognitive processes.
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    • 2.Narrow content can remain epistemically privileged even if not fully transparent—partial or implicit access still counts as authority.
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    • 3.The claim conflates transparency with privileged access; subjects may have justified, defeasible knowledge of narrow content without full introspective clarity.
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    • 1.First-person authority requires epistemic access: if I cannot introspectively know my narrow content, I lack authority over it.
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    • 2.Narrow content (intrinsic mental states) was posited precisely to preserve privileged access against externalist arguments.
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    • 3.If narrow content is opaque to introspection, the theory loses its primary theoretical motivation and explanatory work.
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