Inside the constructible universe, every hereditarily countable set appears in a countable level of the constructible hierarchy. Take a countable elementary substructure of a sufficiently large containing its transitive closure pointwise. The condensation lemma for the constructible universe identifies the collapse with for countable , and the collapse fixes the original set. Conversely, a countable-indexed level is countable inside the constructible universe.
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