 As auxiliary objects are incomplete and as they can be implected in complete target objects, they bear a remarkable resemblance to things of abstract nature like universals, concepts or types. Indeed, in the appendix to his 1915 (p. 739–40) Meinong himself interprets such incomplete objects as platonic universals without being (see also 1978: 368; Section 4.1 above), and he also states there: “what words mean [bedeuten] is the auxiliary object, and what they designate [nennen] is the target object” (1915: 741). This sounds like Frege’s sense/reference distinction: The incomplete, auxiliary objects’ role is akin to the role of Frege’s sense, which functions as the mode of presentation and the determinant of its referent. Meinong’s view of incomplete objects as auxiliary objects has also a close affinity with the denoting concepts view of Russell (1903).