ABSTRACT
In philosophy, it is hard to find an issue about which a final result has been achieved. In the contemporary philosophy of language, however, it is a commonplace to hold that B. Russell's critique of Alexius Meinong is a notable exception to this somewhat deplorable theoretical situation. This chapter focuses on Russell's logico-linguistic objection against Meinong's thesis that there are objects of which it is true that there are no such objects. It discusses Russell's further claims against those beings to the effect that they violate both the law of contradiction and the principle of the Excluded Middle. The chapter seeks to evaluate Russell's new objection to Meinong. For there is a way of showing that Russell's way of intending his new objection as a critique against not only impossibilia, but Meinongian objects in general, was appropriate.
