In contemporary philosophy of mind, the idea that we have privileged epistemic access to our mental states has been considered incompatible with mental content externalism. William of Ockham, in the XIV Century, also seemed to observe that we cannot have privileged epistemic access to the content of some of our mental states – particularly, of our intuitions, if that content depends on some external factors and not just on our internal states. In this article, I argue that, in his first writings, Ockham’s solution to the problem of the introspective cognition of the content of our intuitions consists of the distinction between the direct introspection of a mental state and the indirect introspection of its content.