In this reply to Alex Byrne’s comment on our book Narrow Content (Yli-Vakkuri and Hawthorne 2018), we address Byrne’s claim that internalism is best framed as a thesis about properties of agents rather than properties of thoughts, arguing that a thought-based framework is better suited to standard internalist ambitions. We also discuss whether there is any prospect for a view in the internalist spirit that prescinds from multiplying indices beyond worlds, address Byrne’s ordinary language considerations against an ontology of thoughts, and briefly evaluate the prospects for giving narrow content ascriptions explanatory life by using them to give an account of how things perceptually seem.

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回复伯恩

在对 Alex Byrne 对我们的书 Narrow Content（Yli-Vakkuri 和 Hawthorne 2018）的评论的回复中，我们提出了 Byrne 的主张，即内在主义最好被构建为关于代理属性而不是思想属性的论文，认为基于思想的框架更适合标准的内部主义野心。我们还讨论了内在主义精神中的观点是否有任何前景，即超越世界之外的指数的乘法，针对思想本体论解决伯恩的日常语言考虑，并简要评估通过使用它们来赋予狭隘的内容归属解释生命的前景。描述事物在感知上的表现。