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joining the
Friends of the SEP Society.
By paying modest, annual membership dues to join the Society,
members will receive the following benefits: (a) download access to
high quality PDF (Portable Document Format, a.k.a. Acrobat) versions
of SEP entries and (b) quarterly email notifications (if you
‘opt-in’) that inform you when PDFs you've downloaded have
been updated in the most recent quarterly SEP Archive.
Go to the Friends of the SEP Society Home Page
The home page for the Society is located at
https://leibniz.stanford.edu/friends/.
Sample PDFs
We also release our PDFs in
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Sample PDF.
You might find this format especially useful for mobile devices.
Membership Levels
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join the Friends of the SEP Society,
using our secure online payment system, at one of the following levels:
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the PDF versions in the PDF Library but are limited to
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of the PDF versions in the PDF Library, with no
daily limits on the number of different entries that can be downloaded each day.
For pricing information, see the section on Membership Levels at the
page About the Society.