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by Joker_vD 133 days ago
> Pedantic: the axioms of Boolean algebra don’t assign any natural numbers to the elements “top” and “bottom” of the set it operates on.

Yes? That's precisely what I meant when I said that the traditional presentation of mathematical logic get it wrong: it assigns 0 to FALSE and 1 to TRUE, but it can be done other way around.