Solution

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The continuum hypothesis holds. Let be the assumed Lusin set of cardinality . If , choose with . The size assumption makes a meagre set, but then is uncountable, contradicting the Lusin set property. Thus
One can also use (d) directly: well-order in type . Each proper initial segment has size below , so is meagre and consequently countable, since it is a subset of the Lusin set. These initial segments form a linear increasing union of countable sets equal to . The bound in (d) gives .

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