Narrow content, as articulated by Fodor, is a legitimate individuating factor that captures functional role without precluding relational properties at a separate level of analysis.

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Fodor(as the originator of the multiple realizability argument): Jerry Fodor is a famous philosopher who argued that the same mental state (like pain) could exist in different physical forms—in humans with biological brains, but also theoretically in aliens with completely different biology.
Individuating factor(as used in philosophical analysis): A characteristic or feature that helps us tell one thing apart from another or identify what makes something unique.
Level of analysis(the framework being applied incorrectly in the statement): The particular way or framework you're using to examine or understand something—like studying a painting at the level of individual brushstrokes versus overall composition.
functional role(The criterion by which mental states are identified on the analytic functionalist view.): A pattern of causal relations that an internal state bears to stimulations, behavior, and other internal states.
narrow content(The restricted domain over which privileged access is held to be defensible under externalism.): Mental content individuated solely by factors internal to the subject, independent of the external environment.
relational properties(Contrasted with intrinsic properties in the property-dualist two-aspects theory): Properties of objects that appear to us and are spatial and temporal

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