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and Willard Van Orman Quine.

History

Ancient philosophy

In the West, inquiry into language stretches back to the 5th century BC with philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Linguistic speculation predated systematic descriptions of grammar which emerged in India and in Greece.

In the dialogue Cratylus,

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