Phenomenology

Phenomenologists have posited that our conscious experience has an underlying structure. I believe that this structure can be articulated mathematically, and in a way that makes intuitive sense.

By postulating that Quality—essentially a degree of felt "goodness"—is the phenomenological basis of our experience, higher-order structures of experience can be defined in relation to it. For example, if we represent Quality as a number (larger is better), Value can be defined as a change in Quality or $V = \Delta Q$. Other experiential concepts—such as Potential, Action, Aim, Good, or even Trust and Reputation—can be defined as progressively more abstract transformations or relationships built from this basic notion of Quality.

In this way, I believe that Quality can be used as a way to unravel and unfold the structure of meaning, much as the concept of an atom was once used to unfold the structure of matter.

Note: Defining Good doesn't mean we can objectively determine what particular thing is good, only what we mean when we say something is good.