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by hollerith 767 days ago
>In some symbolic logic classes, that character "bottom" represents "false"

That's unfortunate, because in the study of computer programming languages, it means "undefined" (raise an error).

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Not always. It is also the uninhabited bottom type.
My point is that there is a difference between a Python function's returning false and the function's raising an error, and sometimes the difference really matters, so it would be regrettable if logic teachers actually did use ⊥ to mean false because programming-language theorists use it to mean something whose only reasonable translation in the domain of practical programming is to raise an error.

I have no idea what your point is.