 As we have seen, the intentionality of meaning something, in contrast to the of-ness of presentations, requires linguistic signs (see also Conrad 1910, Schmücker 1956, Fabbianelli 2015). This idea is further investigated by Herman Ritzel in his dissertation of 1914 (published 1916) where the distinction between meaning acts and presentations is articulated in an original way. Ritzel endorses Reinach’s idea that presentations require the intuitive presence of the object, whereas meaning something does not (1916: 35), but he develops this view by claiming that meaning acts and presentations differ in kind because they correlate to objects of different kinds. Whereas presenting directly points at objects, meaning linguistically points at concepts, and it is by means of concepts that meaning acts can be said to refer to objects (1916: 48f).