# What the Mona Lisa and a Screwdriver Have in Common ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/366565947/V4BxepO7PlGuOlDd7kqLhoR7bIblGiWH6KzAYCivtF0-cove_TTIen7w.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Annel Bäth]] - Full Title: What the Mona Lisa and a Screwdriver Have in Common - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The paper sets four basic requirements for explaining functions of both tools and artworks. They say a function must be a real capability, be intended (by maker or user), and still count even if the object malfunctions. The author proposes a Unifying Account of Artifact Functionality that meets these requirements. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/366565947 - Source File: What Mona Lisa and This Screwdriver by Bahr.pdf ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > It is also obvious that the *intention desideratum* is met: Ascribing creatorintended functions as well as ascribing both kinds of user-intended functions requires being justified in believing, i.e. having good reasons for assuming, that there are intentions of agents that aim for the artifact in question to fulfill the respective functions, as cci, cui and cfi indicate. According to uaaf, a function we ascribe either has to be creator-intended or user-intended; if we are not justified in believing that there is either a creator-intention or a userintention, uaaf does not allow for ascribing a function to an item. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k5v5wc4hzk67t3v2bza6x8nq)) > An example that has already been mentioned shows that we still want to ascribe a creator-intended function to an artifact if it is broken, at least as long as the artifact can be fixed:13 If my coffee machine is broken, but not unfixable, I still want to say that it is a function of the coffee machine to make coffee. Also, if it is a monument's creator-intended function to serve as a spatial orientation point, we can keep up a respective function ascription as long as this function can be restored, even if the monument is damaged and currently cannot serve this function (e.g. because its higher parts need to be restored again to make the monument visible in a city in which it is surrounded by high buildings). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k5v47ezpdvdq1s046dqqcxzp))