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Let $T:E\to F$ be a continuous map between topological spaces.
For an ordinal $\beta$ suppose that $\{B_\alpha:\alpha<\beta\}$ is a collection of open subsets of $E$ such that:
$\alpha_1<\alpha_2<\beta\Rightarrow B_{\alpha_2}\subset B_{\alpha_1}$
$\bigcap_{\alpha<\beta}B_\alpha\neq\emptyset$
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