"What the Metaphysics of Quality adds to [William] James's
pragmatism and his
radical empiricism is the idea that the primary reality from which subjects and objects spring is
value. By doing so it seems unite pragmatism and radical empiricism into a single fabric. Value, the primary test of truth, is also the primary empirical experience. The Metaphysics of Quality says pure experience
is value. Experience which is not valued is not experienced. The two are the same. This is where value fits. Value is not at the tail end of a series of superficial scientific deductions that puts it somewhere in a mysterious undetermined location in the cortex of the brain. Value is at the very front of the empirical procession."
Robert Pirsig Lila 2006 (1991) p.395
