Hereditary attributes of surjections and parameter sets

This paper investigates the duality between combinatorial properties of finite injections (finite sets) and finite surjections (finite equivalence relations). We establish a dual form of the finite Erdos-Rado canonization theorem [J. London Math. Soc. 25 (1950), 249–255] and generalize results from [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. A 35 (1983), 309–327].