In philosophy, a quality is an attribute or a property characteristic of an object. In contemporary philosophy the idea of qualities, and especially how to distinguish certain kinds of qualities from one another, remains controversial. [1] "Quality," or "value," as described by @ Robert M. Pirsig, cannot be defined because it empirically precedes any intellectual construction of it, namely due to the fact that quality—as Pirsig explicitly defines it—exists always as a perceptual experience before it is ever thought of descriptively or academically. Quality is the "knife-edge" of experience, found only in the present; @Here and Now. According to Pirsig, everything—including ideas and matter—is a product, and a result, of Quality. Therefore, absence of quality introduces a dead world.

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• #zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance (See: @Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)