 In Aesthetics, the attack is a little different. “We must distinguish between the aesthetic object and the intention in the mind of its creator”, Beardsley says, and the irrelevance of the latter to interpretation can be shown if we consider a certain sculpture, “a large, twisted, cruller-shaped object of polished teak, mounted at an oblique angle to the floor”. The creator of the sculpture intends it to “symbolize… Human Destiny”. Try as we might, however, we “see in it no such symbolic meaning”. The philosophical question then is: