Meinong is nowadays principally remembered as an ontologist, his ideas valued as anticipations of work in rather deviant fields of logic and semantics. The Meinongian ontology was not, however, developed for its own sake, and its logical and semantic implications were far from being uppermost in Meinong's mind. It was, rather, certain problems in the foundations of psychology that had served as the spur for his investigations, and his ontology can in fact be seen as part of a much larger project in descriptive psychology, the project of describing the different kinds of perceptual, intellectual and emotional acts and states.
