ABSTRACT
Although Meinong distinguished content from object, he, too, could not free himself from Brentano's principle ‘No act without an object’. Meinong makes the content-object distinction in his early essay ‘Über Gegenstände höherer Ordnung’ (1899). In it he tells us that he first thought that he could use the terms ‘object’ and ‘content’ interchangeably (promiscue), but later found this assumption to be wrong (GHO 381).
