 So descriptions of doxastic states that don’t make use of indexical terms—states of believing, e.g., that John Perry is making a mess, or that the unique bearded philosopher in Safeway is making a mess—don’t seem to capture the doxastic change that occurs when Perry realizes what’s been happening. The sorts of descriptions that do capture that change all seem ineliminably indexical—Perry can describe the change as coming to believe that I was making a mess, and we can describe it as, for example, Perry’s coming to believe that he himself was making a mess.