 Findlay reports that he was won over to realism (i.e., anti-idealism), during his undergraduate years, mainly through clandestine readings of Russell and Moore. Reading Russell, he certainly became acquainted with the name and ideas of Alexius Meinong, discussed by Russell at length in 1904 and 1905 (Russell 1904 [1973]). In 1930, after he acquired German, Findlay began reading Meinong’s works in earnest, under the direction of Meinong’s pupil Ernst Mally.