Is $\ell^1$ a Banach space which is uncountably infinite dimensional?

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We know that $ℓ^1=\left\{(x_n)_n :\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty |x_n|<\infty \right\}$ with the usual norm $$||(x_n)_n||=\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty |x_n|$$ is a $\bf Banach$ space which is infinite dimensional.

We can easily check that the set $\{e_n\}_0^\infty$ such that: $$e_n=(0,0,\cdots,0,\underbrace{1}_{n^{th}},0,\cdots)$$ is a set of linearly independent vectors in $ℓ^1$.

But there is a theorem saying that if a $V$ is a Banach space then either $V$ is finite dimensional or $\bf uncountably$ infinite dimensional.

But we see that the set $\{e_n\}_0^\infty$ is countable.

What I did not understand?

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The set $B = \{e_n\}$ is linearly independent, but not a basis of the vector space $\ell^1$. In fact, the set of all linear combinations of elements of $B$ is $$\ell_0 = \{ (x_n) \mid x_n = 0 \text{ for all but finitely many } n \} .$$