Minimum description length might be just the right place.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Description-Principle-Adaptive-Comput...
Alternately, generating functions.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_function
[3] https://www.amazon.com/generatingfunctionology-Third-Herbert...
Alternately alternately, various categorical notions.
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realizability
[5] http://stijnvermeeren.be/download/mathematics/essay.pdf
[6] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/locally+presentable+categories...
[7] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/groupoid+cardinality
Alternately alternately alternately, foundational madness of the best kind.
[8] http://www.forkinganddividing.com/
[9] https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spot-Lectures-Logic/dp/30371908...
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Minimum description length might be just the right place.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Description-Principle-Adaptive-Comput...
Alternately, generating functions.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_function
[3] https://www.amazon.com/generatingfunctionology-Third-Herbert...
Alternately alternately, various categorical notions.
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realizability
[5] http://stijnvermeeren.be/download/mathematics/essay.pdf
[6] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/locally+presentable+categories...
[7] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/groupoid+cardinality
Alternately alternately alternately, foundational madness of the best kind.
[8] http://www.forkinganddividing.com/
[9] https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spot-Lectures-Logic/dp/30371908...