 Russell dismissed Meinong with a few deft sentences in 1905. If you say that the golden mountain is golden, then you must say that there is a golden mountain, that there are chimeras, that there is a present King of France. This offends, Russell later wrote, against our “robust sense of reality”. Furthermore, if the golden mountain is mountainous and golden, then the round square is both round and square, so something exists that is round and square. This offends against the law of non-contradiction. Many readers accepted these arguments as decisive. But not Findlay. 