# Functional Beauty Chapter 4 **Opening (not a real abstract):** If the line of thought developed in the preceding chapter is on the right track, then, contrary to Roger Scruton’s suggestion, there is sense, rather than obscurity and confusion, in speaking of the aesthetic appreciation of an object in light of its function. However, this would be for naught if there were no solution to the other important problem for Functional Beauty that Scruton raises: the Problem of Translation. This is not a matter of determining the function of an object, but rather of understanding how knowledge of that function can play a role in our perception of, and hence our aesthetic appreciation of, that object. As noted in Chapter 2, Section 4, Scruton illustrates this problem with the example of a mundane architectural element, the strainer arch. The function of a strainer arch is to hold up walls. But what does it mean **Authors:** [[Function and Form]]