Principia Cybernetica Web (C)

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Author: Joslyn, Heylighen, Turchin,

Date: AUG 1992

Variety

(property-of): collection

(cases): scale

Synopsis: The measure of a collection. Effectively, variety is the cardinality of a set. It is presumed that the elements of the collection are all distinct, and thus variety is a measure of the number of distinctions present.