 The conflict was doctrinal. The biographical section has described Findlay’s embrace of realism toward the end of his undergraduate years. Through his long career, Findlay never wavered from his commitment to realism, that is, to the view that very little of reality is “mind-made”. It is not surprising, then, that Findlay would react negatively to Husserl’s swerve towards idealism, first exhibited in his Ideen of  1913.[8]  So it was also natural for Findlay to focus on Husserl’s early work, the Logisiche Untersuchungen (1901–03) most of all. By the late 1930s, he was committed to translating this massive text into English. (Wittgenstein asked him in 1939 why he was so interested in “that old work”.) When the translation appeared, in 1970, it made less of a splash than might have been expected. Husserl’s student and assistant, Marvin Farber, had already published a paraphrase of the Untersuchungen in 1942, and laid side by side, there are not terribly significant differences between the two renditions, and some readers prefer Farber to Findlay the way some Anglophone Kant readers prefer Kemp-Smith to Guyer.