 There is a diversity of contemporary theories of nonexistent objects, where “theory of nonexistent objects” is meant to include any theory that attempts to make sense of (alleged) talk about nonexistent objects and/or (seeming) intentional directedness to nonexistent objects. Some of them, like the de-ontologization strategy and fictionalism, take a reductionist route. The de-ontologization strategy claims that there can be true sentences about nonexistent objects, although there are no nonexistent objects. Fictionalism claims that talk about nonexistent objects is not to be taken literally but as a sort of “pretense”. The other worlds strategy makes use of the assumption of merely possible (and even impossible) worlds. Other contemporary theories of nonexistent objects, however, are closer to Meinong’s original theory but have amended MOT\(^o\) in such a way as to avoid at least some of the abovementioned paradoxes. Those are often called “neo-Meinongian theories”. Usually, they adopt either the nuclear-extranuclear strategy or the dual copula strategy in order to free Meinongian object theory from inconsistencies and counterintuitive consequences.