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Indexicals are terms whose meaning cannot be determined before one knows who is speaking. Such 'token-reflexive' terms include personal pronouns, such as 'I', and 'she', and pronouns of time and place such as 'here' and 'then'. I demonstrate (in VI) how Baumgarten develops the idea that a beautiful work of art introduces second-person reciprocity in our--first-person--appreciative experience. I elaborate on this idea in the third part, in terms of tertiary qualities, empathetic imagination, and intimation. It is the artistically induced imaginative second-person reciprocity which explains the principle of acquaintance: we must become a 'you' to a work of art and empathize with the artistic expression of its presentation or with its represented subject--if we are to fully appreciate it. Cf. response-dependence.