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en-wikipedia-org-1155		Quality (philosophy) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1597	209	56	Quality (philosophy) Wikipedia Attribute or a property characteristic of an object in philosophy A quality is an attribute or a property characteristic of an object in philosophy.[1] In contemporary philosophy the idea of qualities, and especially how to distinguish certain kinds of qualities from one another, remains controversial.[1] it is the peculiar mark of substance that it should be capable of admitting contrary qualities; for it is by itself changing that it does so".[3] Aristotle described four types of qualitative opposites: correlatives, contraries, privatives and positives.[4] It could be thought that mass is intrinsic to an object, and thus a primary quality. Conceptions of quality as metaphysical and ontological[edit] Philosophy and common sense tend to see qualities as related either to subjective feelings or to objective facts. Pirsig examines concepts of quality in classical and romantic, seeking a Metaphysics of Quality and a reconciliation of those views in terms of non-dualistic holism. b) evaluates: the quality of all properties of an object, system or process	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1155.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1155.txt