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How can we find out what the narrow content of a mental state is?
For instance, we might want to know the narrow content of Oscar's belief that water is wet without wanting to know the narrow content of the rest of his beliefs.
So, what function from scenarios to truth values constitutes the narrow content of my thought that the lakes contain water?
If we want to know the narrow content of a particular mental state, we simply construct the diagonal proposition.
So the Twin Earthly scenario is also included in the narrow content of my thought that the lakes contain water.
By contrast, the narrow content of my thought that water is H2O will separate these two scenarios.
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Thus, sensory qualities can and should be taken to be the narrow contents of such states.
(1) The strategy presupposes that all the narrow contents of our beliefs are included in the ordinary contents of belief, so that once we have subtracted the non-narrow contents away the narrow contents will remain.
The subtraction strategy (Brown 1992) is an attempt to identify the narrow contents of a subject's beliefs by considering all of the contents of the subject's belief and subtracting those that are not narrow.
First, while the subtraction strategy assumes that the narrow contents of belief are a subset of the ordinary contents of belief, it need not be committed to the view that all of these ordinary contents are describable in natural language.
It inherits the principal objection to that view, namely that it is not clear that ordinary language can offer a narrow vocabulary sufficient to describe the narrow contents of our thoughts.
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