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Arlo,
Thank you for pointing me to "Pragmatism and abduction" this may be an aside but I found that Peirce
shared some interesting ideas about intellectual quality that I believe Pirsig does in that truth is a species
of the Good. I think a poster wanted an answer as to what intellectual quality was before certain 
questions were answered. Perhaps this might help.
-Ron
 
"A logical reasoner is a reasoner who exercises great self-control in his intellectual operations; and therefore the logically good is simply a particular species of the morally good. Ethics — the genuine normative science of ethics, as contradistinguished from the branch of anthropology which in our day often passes under the name of ethics — this genuine ethics is the normative science par excellence, because an end — the essential object of normative science — is germane to a voluntary act in a primary way in which it is germane to nothing else. For that reason I have some lingering doubt as to there being any true normative science of the beautiful. On the other hand, an ultimate end of action deliberately adopted — that is to say, reasonably adopted — must be a state of things that reasonably recommends itself in itself aside from any ulterior consideration. It must be an admirable ideal, having the only kind of goodness that such an
 ideal can have; namely, esthetic goodness. From this point of view the morally good appears as a particular species of the esthetically good. 
131. If this line of thought be sound, the morally good will be the esthetically good specially determined by a peculiar superadded element; and the logically good will be the morally good specially determined by a special superadded element. Now it will be admitted to be, at least, very likely that in order to correct or to vindicate the maxim of pragmatism, we must find out precisely what the logically good consists in; and it would appear from what has been said that, in order to analyze the nature of the logically good, we must first gain clear apprehensions of the nature of the esthetically good and especially that of the morally good. "
-C.S. Peirce ethical and esthetical goodness