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Preface (with Acknowledgments).- Introduction: Meinong and Philosophical Analysis.- Chapter 1. Meinong's Life and Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Origins of Gegenstandstheorie: Immanent and Transcendent Intended Objects in Brentano, Twardowski, and Meinong.-Chapter 3. Meinong on the Phenomenology of Assumption.- Chapter 4. Außersein of the Pure Object.- Chapter 5. Constitutive (Nuclear) and Extraconstitutive (Extranuclear) Properties.- Chapter 6. Meditations on Meinong's Golden Mountain.- Chapter 7. Domain Comprehension in Meinongian Object Theory.- Chapter 8. Meinong's Concept of Implexive Being and Non-Being.- Chapter 9. About Nothing.- Chapter 10. Tarski's Quantificational Semantics and Meinongian Object Theory Domains.- Chapter 11. Reflections on Mally's Heresy.- Chapter 12. Virtual Relations and Meinongian Abstractions.- Chapter 13. Truth and Fiction in Lewis's Critique of Meinongian Semantics.- Chapter 14. Anti-Meinongian Actualist Meaning of Fiction in Kripke's 1973 John Locke Lectures.- Chapter 15. Metaphysics of Meinongian Aesthetic Value.- Chapter 16. Quantum Indeterminacy and Physical Reality as a Relevantly Predicationally Incomplete Existent Entity.- Chapter 17. Confessions of a Meinongian Logician 18. Meinongian Dark Ages and Renaissance.- Appendix: Object Theory Logic and Mathematics -- Two Essays by Ernst Mally (Translation and Critical Commentary).- Notes.- References.- Index.