ABSTRACT
Object theory is among the most interesting and most important philosophical conceptions to be found in the work of Alexius Meinong. The transition is important at least insofar as such objects are, from Meinong's perspective, to be distinguished from the contents of sensation. The content-object distinction is absolutely crucial to understanding Meinong's notion of object theory, for prior to this distinction he and many others had the tendency to regard a good many basically nonpsychical objects as belonging to the domain of psychology. Meinong holds the view that objects of higher order always have a foundation. A melody, for instance, has tones as its foundation. Whenever Meinong speaks of objects as 'absolute,' he means that they themselves are without foundation. Since Meinong identifies timelessness as the distinguishing feature of subsistence, it would seem to follow that sensory objects do not subsist.
