Interested as a young philosopher in the "massive developments in logical theory' of the early part of the 20th century (many of which he "read back' into the works of the mature Plato).¹ Ryle found himself sympathizing with Platonic, because anti-psychologistic, theories of meaning.² Yet, from the start, he was convinced that this Platonic "tendency to populate the world with Objects' had to be resisted.