In the late 1930s, a relatively young Filipino philosopher by the name of Ricardo R. Pascual pursued a PhD at the University of Chicago. During this time, two prominent analytic philosophers were at the same institution, viz. Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap. The interactions between these three philosophers paved the way for the birth of the analytic tradition in Pascual’s home country, the Philippines. In this paper, I retrace Pascual’s development as an analytic philosopher and show how his interactions with Russell and Carnap served as a catalyst in the development of analytic philosophy in the Philippines.