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Tertiary qualities are the experiential aspects of persons and their actions structured temporally by imagination. Thanks to perception's embodiment these qualities are fairly easily recognized under normal circumstances where persons who are perceiving persons who are acting do so from a second-person perspective. Not so in art where due to a restricted address of sense modalities empathetic imagination plays a constitutive (instead of merely a perceptive) role for the awareness of tertiary qualities--call this role pre-perceptual, or, as Kant did, productive. Cf. Zemach, Wollheim, secondary qualities, and aesthetic properties. (II:3; VII:8-9; VIII:3).