“…We show that, while for countable families the only issues arising are of K-theoretic nature, for larger families the size itself becomes an obstacle. Using a combinatorial argument which goes back to Luzin's families, we prove, for a fairly general class of separable, nonabelian, nonunital C * -algebras A, the existence of a set of ℵ 1 commuting elements in Q(A) containing no uncountable subset that lifts to a set of commuting elements in M(A) (see also [6]). [5] , Voiculescu's theorem for nonseparable C * -algebras, arXiv preprint, 2018, arXiv:1811.09352.…”