Isidore's Pub, Episode 5: "Quality"

Devin O'Donnell tells us the origins of "quality" and the difficult work involved in creating such a word. Plato invented a word "poiotes" as a the "what-ness" of a thing. Cicero and the Latin writers took the Greek word and translated it into the Latin, "qualis." Every time we use the word "quality" we ought to remember the difficulty which Plato undertook to capture the essence of a thing.