 Given such deep disparagement, what did Findlay find in Husserl that justified the accolades Findlay showered on him? Findlay in his last book would remark that analytic philosophy has two obsessions: reference and representation. He found in Brentano’s notion of intentionality, and Husserl’s’ implementation of it, a comprehensive theory of meaning that underlay both reference and representation and extended to areas undreamt of by the descendants of Frege and Russell. There is more to reference than language; there is more to representation than mental mirroring. This for Findlay was the Husserl’s enduring legacy.