 From the standpoint of mainstream analytic philosophy, Findlay serves as the dedicated contrarian. He threw Husserl at Frege, Meinong at Russell, Brentano at the later Wittgenstein. He did not attack with the contemporary method of generating counterexamples to mid-level philosophical generalizations. He set up Husserl and Meinong and Brentano as substantial figures, as worthy of interest as their analytic counterparts. When these three diverged from the analytic gods, they provided full-fledged philosophical alternatives, not isolated pot-shots.