Schwarz, Wolfgang2015-07-312015-07-310004-8402http://hdl.handle.net/1885/14516Magnetism in meta-semantics is the view that the meaning of our words is determined in part by their use and in part by the objective naturalness of candidate meanings. This hypothesis is commonly attributed to David Lewis, and has been put to philosophical work by Brian Weatherson, Ted Sider and others. I argue that there is no evidence that Lewis ever endorsed the view, and that his actual account of language reveals good reasons against it.© 2013 Australasian Association of Philosophy.http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0004-8402/..."author can archive post-print...On institutional repository or subject-based repository after a 18 months embargo" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 31/07/15)2013-03-1310.1080/00048402.2013.765900