[1] It reflects the teachings of the Athenian Cratylus (Ancient Greek: Κρατύλος, also transliterated as Kratylos), fl.
mid to late 5th century BCE, who is Socrates' interlocutor in Plato's eponymous dialogue Cratylus.
[2] Gérard Genette divided the theory into primary and secondary Cratylism.
[3] Cratylism is distinguished from linguisticity[definition needed] by the problematic status of style: in a natural language, where a perfect connection is found between word and things, variations of style are no longer conceivable.
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