 To begin, there is a question as to whether Russell got Meinong’s position right. Meinong never maintained that the round square existed (or subsisted). On the contrary, it neither exists nor subsists, so for Meinong nothing exists that is both round and square. But it can be a subject of predication, and if the predication is correct, it is a part of a fact, and facts about contradictions are not contradictions. In other words, in terms of propositions, Meinong maintained that: