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Anticipation (like memory, a power of imagination) is of the essence of work of art's external (referential) and internal nature. The internal importance of anticipation is most evident in the temporal arts. However, externally, there is anticipation of resemblance (in case of depiction), or transparency (in case of photographic reproduction; and even exemplification in general is an effect of anticipatory imagination. Reversedly, resemblancea (the a is short for 'anticipated'), transparencya, and exemplificationa form the natural presupposition for whatever conventionality is involved in depiction. Whether the resemblance, transparancy, or exemplification are to real objects is irrelevant from the point of view of depiction--this is why I stress their anticipated nature. (I:3-6).