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Countable family of distinct infinite cardinalities with a largest member

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Pairwise distinct cardinalities do not prevent a countable family from having a largest member. For example, take X1​=ℵω​ and Xn+2​=ℵn​ for n<ω, viewing cardinals as initial ordinals. Every later set is a subset of X1​, so
⋃n≥1​Xn​=X1​
(1)
although all the cardinalities are different.

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