What is it in the object that elicits approval or disapproval—what lets an object be judged “beautiful”? Beauty is a function of relations (Verhältnisse) or form, as in the “relations in the outline of a statue, in the characters of a drama, of tones in musical chords” (SW IX: 329; cf. SW IX: 313, SW II: 344). For this reason, Herbart holds that only an object exhibiting internal structure or a relation to other objects can have aesthetic interest. An object without relations is “aesthetically insignificant” (Weiss 1928: 115). In music, no single tone can be considered, in itself, beautiful or ugly, although single tones constitute the intervals and chords that, as relations, elicit aesthetic judgment (cf. SW II: 344).  Hence the axiom of all aesthetics is this: 