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The National Endowment for the Humanities has endorsed and supported our efforts with a Challenge Grant of $500,000.</p> <h3>Three Ways to Support The SEP</h3> <ul> <li><a href="friends.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Become a Friend of the SEP and Access PDFs</b></span></a>. Though SEP entries are freely available in HTML, you can pay modest membership dues to join the <a href="https://leibniz.stanford.edu/friends/"><em>Friends of the SEP Society</em></a> and become entitled to download high quality PDF (Portable Document Format) versions of SEP entries.</li> <li><a href="donate.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Make a Donation</b></span></a>. Please consider supporting the SEP by making a generous tax-deductible contribution.</li> <li><a href="sepia.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>SEPIA for Libraries</b></span></a>. 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Zalta</a></li>  </ul> <h3>A List of Other Documents of Interest</h3> <ul> <li><a href="ICOLC-Call.pdf">ICOLC's Call for Global Library Community Action</a> (PDF document, January 25, 2005 version)</li> <li><a href="problems.html">The Problems With a Traditional Funding Model</a></li> <li><a href="../about.html#pubmod">The SEP's Publishing Model</a></li> <li><a href="../info.html#access">Recent Access Statistics</a> (SEP Editorial Information page) </li> <li><a href="value.html">The SEP's Value for Research, Education, the Profession, and the Public</a></li> <li><a href="../archives/">The SEP's Archives</a></li> <li><a href="../board.html">The SEP's Editorial Board</a></li> <li>Letters from Professional Organizations in Support of SEP Grant Proposals <ul> <li><a href="apa.html">American Philosophical Association</a></li> <li><a href="cpa.html">Canadian Philosophical Association</a></li> <li><a href="aap.html">Australasian Association of Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="esap.html">European Association of Analytic Philosophy</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div>  <div id="footer" class="scroll-block"> <div id="footer-menu"> <div class="menu-block"> <h4><i class="icon-book"></i> Browse</h4> <ul role="menu"> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../contents.html">Table of Contents</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../new.html">What's New</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia/random">Random Entry</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../published.html">Chronological</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../archives/">Archives</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu-block"> <h4><i class="icon-info-sign"></i> About</h4> <ul role="menu"> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../info.html">Editorial Information</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../about.html">About the SEP</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../board.html">Editorial Board</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../cite.html">How to Cite the SEP</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../special-characters.html">Special Characters</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../tools/">Advanced Tools</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../accessibility.html">Accessibility</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu-block"> <h4><i class="icon-leaf"></i> Support SEP</h4> <ul role="menu"> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../support/">Support the SEP</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../support/friends.html">PDFs for SEP Friends</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../support/donate.html">Make a Donation</a></li> <li role="menuitem"><a href="../support/sepia.html">SEPIA for Libraries</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="mirrors"> <div id="mirror-info"> <h4><i class="icon-globe"></i> Mirror Sites</h4> <p>View this site from another server:</p> </div> <div class="btn-group open"> <a class="btn dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="https://plato.stanford.edu/"> <span class="flag flag-usa"></span> USA (Main Site) <span class="caret"></span> <span class="mirror-source">Philosophy, Stanford University</span> </a> <ul class="dropdown-menu"> <li><a href="../mirrors.html">Info about mirror sites</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="site-credits"> <p>The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is <a href="../info.html#c">copyright © 2024</a> by <a href="https://mally.stanford.edu/">The Metaphysics Research Lab</a>, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University</p> <p>Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054</p> </div>  </div>  </div>   <script> $('.dropdown-toggle').dropdown(); </script> </body> </html>

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