As regards Ehrenfels’ philosophical pursuits, his interest in Brentano’s philosophy gave way to a receptivity to the ideas of Meinong, the new young lecturer who had also studied with Brentano, but who was already developing views of his own, particularly in the theory of relations, which diverged from Brentano’s orthodox teachings (see Rollinger 2008). According to Ehrenfels’ later account, Brentano’s smooth and polished delivery did not impress him nearly as much as Meinong’s cumbersome search for the truth (Ehrenfels in PSIV, 426–429). Another student who also preferred Meinong over Brentano was Alois Höfler (also a Wagnerian), who became a close friend of Ehrenfels after first meeting him in Brunn in 1876 (Valent 2016, 178). Having started to lecture in Vienna only in 1878, Meinong was awarded a position in Graz in 1882, where Ehrenfels followed him in the winter semester of 1884/1885, after a year of military service. Ehrenfels wrote his dissertation on Relations of Magnitude and Numbers. A Psychological Study in Graz under Meinong’s guidance, likely based on an extensive commentary on Meinong’s 1882 article “Hume Studien II: zur Relationstheorie” (see Ierna 2017a, 165 and Ehrenfels 2017). Ehrenfels returned to Vienna, where he completed his Habilitation (a second thesis, in addition to the doctoral thesis, in order to qualify for a teaching position) “On Feeling and Willing” (Ehrenfels 1887, in PSIII, 15–97), in which he opposed the Brentanian doctrine concerning emotions and also laid down the psychological foundation for his later theory of value.