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Concepts as Involving Laws and Inconceivable without Them Wilfrid Sellars Philosophy of Science, Vol. 15, No. 4. (Oct., 1948), pp. 287-315. Stable URL: /sici?sici=0031-82482915%3A4%3C287%3ACAILAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L Philosophy of Science is currently published by The University of Chicago Press. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /about/terms.html. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /journals/ucpress.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@. Sat May 12 00:59:57 2007 CONCEPTS AS INVOLVING LAWS AND INCONCEIVABLE WITHOUT THEM WILFRID SELLARS Formal implication is usually represented by symbolization such as (x) +x 3qx, which may be read, for all values of x, +X (materially) implies qx. If the values of the variable x, in ~ x and qx be XI xz u,etc., then . . . ~ x formally implies qx if and only if, whatever values of x, x,, be chosen, +xumaterially implies *xu . . . However