Quality

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance:

1. Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a non-thinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined.

2. I was talking about the first wave of crystallization outside of rhetoric that resulted from Phaedrus' refusal to define Quality. He had to answer the question, If you can't define it, what makes you think it exists?

A thing exists, if a world without it can't function normally. If we can show that a world without Quality functions abnormally, then we have shown that Quality exists, whether it's defined or not. Subtract quality from a description of the world:

Fine arts, paintings, symphonies, poetry, comedy, sports, tasty marketplace items, movies, dances, plays and parties would all be gone. A huge proportion of us would be out of work, which would force us to indulge in non-Quality work. Pure science, mathematics, philosophy and logic would remain unchanged. If Quality was dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.

The world CAN function without Quality, but it's not worth living. The term WORTH is a Quality term. Life would just be living without any values or purpose at all.