Therefore, restricting privileged access to narrow content abandons the very phenomenon—first-person authority as actually practiced—that any adequate account of self-knowledge must explain.

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Adequate account(what philosophers are trying to build): A complete and satisfying explanation that handles all the tricky cases and doesn't leave out important details.
First-person authority(epistemology): The idea that you have special expertise about your own thoughts and experiences—that your opinion about what's in your own mind should be trusted more than anyone else's.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.): Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
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.

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