[MD] Does Quality exist?

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Redsky,

>
> 2. You can go to a  specialty used bookstore and find a first edition
> autographed for $1,450.  The un autographed one is $450.
>
> How does that change the quality of the  book?
> Are there TWO qualities to the book: Physical and spiritual?

In Pirsig's MOQ, he first divides Quality into static patterned quality 
and dynamic quality.

Your experience of the book involves both aspects. The static aspect of 
that experience is divided into four types of patterns of value. So in 
answer to your question, there are four qualities to the book plus dq. 
Your higher valuation of the autographed book is participation in a 
social pattern called celebrity but irrelevant to intellectual 
patterns.

Regards,
Steve