Abstract

Alexius Meinong is one of the contemporary analytic philosophers who has enormously influenced his successors. His philosophy was in some features affected by the Greek philosophical tradition besid Brentano and Twardovski. One of the most prominent principles of his philosophy is to distinguish "being" from "so-being", the latter is something beyond the existence or non-existence of the objects. Having this distinction in mind, He then turns to investigate the "so-being" inexistence entities like the "circle–square ". He calls the realm of the so-beings "ausser sein" and tries to make it the foundation of his theory of objects. This article shows, through a comprehensive and subtle examination of this theory, that "ausser sein" lies beyond the existence and non-existence; it is the universe of pure objects and has a weak degree of objective reality.