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Cratylus as one of the "earliest" linguistic philosophical texts

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"In doing this, Cratylus became one of the earliest philosophical texts of the Classical Greek period to deal with matters of etymology and linguistics."

I find this statement to raise doubt in myself: linguistics, the philosophy of language, and, specifically, the "correctness of names" (as per Reeve's introduction to his translation) was a "topic of great interest to Plato's contemporaries." Nor can I find a reference to back this claim up. Would anybody object if I was to remove this statement? Mythpage88 (talk) 03:59, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all. RJC TalkContribs 22:58, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Done and done! Mythpage88 (talk) 23:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]