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    It is not the case that Those who endorse content externalism should endorse only a restricted form of privileged access, limited to the narrow contents of thoughts.

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    • 1.Burge's arthritis case demonstrates that subjects are authoritative about their mental states under their own concepts, not under some narrow re-description that abstracts away from social-linguistic context.
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    • 2.Privileged access, properly understood following Burge, is access to wide-content thoughts under the subject's own self-ascriptive mode, not access to narrow surrogates.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Narrow content, as Fodor conceives it, either collapses into syntactic form or requires a problematic mapping across contexts that resists introspective access.
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    • 2.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.Content externalism is true.
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    • 2.Unrestricted privileged access (covering wide/externally-individuated content) is incompatible with content externalism.
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    • 3.Privileged access restricted to narrow content is compatible with content externalism.
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