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Hey Dr D, have you ever read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Persig's central thesis is that Western civilization's scientific materialism has one glaring flaw, that being the inability to define or quantify "quality" (or beauty in this case). It can be defined by proxy, as in saying it is "pleasant to the senses", but then you run into the problem of now defining "pleasant", ad infinitum.
All of us clearly recognize beauty when we see it, but we cannot define it objectively using the tools of our Western reductionist philosophies.
Baseball is a beautiful game.