Description: Any disjoint family of open sets in a second-countable space is countable. (The sets are required to be nonempty because otherwise there could be many empty sets in the family.) (Contributed by Mario Carneiro, 21-Mar-2015) (Proof shortened by Mario Carneiro, 9-Apr-2015) (Revised by NM, 17-Jun-2017)
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Assertion | 2ndcdisj | |