ABSTRACT
Seldom has a modern philosopher become as famous for a view which he does not hold as Alexius Meinong. One generally attributes to him the belief that there are, not just such ordinary things as mountains and relations, but even such things as the golden mountain and the round square. He is therefore often viewed as a spendthrift ontologist who delighted in multiplying entities continuously and needlessly. Meinong distinguishes between existence and something else, an 'existential determination' called 'to be existing.' Meinong's main mistake, we now see, is that he does not distinguish between these two relations. Since, according to his Berkeleyan ontological framework, the golden mountain consists of the properties of being golden and being a mountain, he concludes without a moment's hesitation that it must be golden and a mountain.
