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An Analysis of Meinongʹs Theory of Objects

enormously influenced his successors. His philosophy was in some features affected by the Greek philosophical tradition besid Brentano and Twardovski. One of the most prominent principles of his philosophy is to distinguish "being" from "so-being", the latter is something beyond the existence or non­existence of the objects. Having this distinction in mind, He then turns to investigate the "so-being" inexistence entities like the "circle-square He calls the realm of the so-beings "ausser sein" (extra existence) and tries to make it the foundation of his theory of objects. This article shows, through a comprehensive and subtle examination of this theory, that "ausser sein" lies beyond the existence and non-existence; it is the universe of pure objects and has a weak degree of objective reality.