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I am specifically asking about the probability that the value is 1 (that is, how sigmoid functions specifically check for this).
They don't in general. In the quoted text, there is an explicit constraint that means this can be the case:
If it is desirable to predict a probability of a binary class
(emphasis mine). This means that the target value $y \in \{...
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