In this paper we want to investigate two notions of the cardinality of relations in the context of allegories. The different axiom systems are motivated on the existence of injective and surjective functions, respectively. In both cases we provide a canonical cardinality function and show that it is initial in the category of all cardinality functions over the given allegory.

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(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...