A key argument against Pirsig’s notion of Quality as a pre-rational, immediate experience is that it risks being overly vague and unverifiable. If Quality is truly pre-linguistic and pre-conceptual, it becomes difficult to articulate or analyze, rendering it almost mystical. This lack of clarity makes it hard to distinguish Quality from subjective feelings or biases, which are already shaped by cultural, linguistic, and personal frameworks. For instance, the “immediate” sense of beauty in a sunset may not be as pre-rational as Pirsig suggests; it could be influenced by prior experiences, cultural conditioning, or even biological predispositions. Thus, what Pirsig calls Quality might simply be the result of complex, pre-existing cognitive processes rather than a primordial, undivided reality. This undermines its claim to being a foundational metaphysical principle.