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Reals are a useful sensory abstraction. Countability is another sensory abstraction, although for most people it's a rather less useful one.
There's no particular obligation for sensory abstractions to be logically watertight - if only because logic is an abstraction itself.
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Reals are a useful sensory abstraction. Countability is another sensory abstraction, although for most people it's a rather less useful one.
There's no particular obligation for sensory abstractions to be logically watertight - if only because logic is an abstraction itself.