This paper offers a systematic approach to all mathematical theories with local/global behavior. To build objects with local and global aspects, on begins with a category of [script]C of allowed local structures, and somehow derives a category [script]C[superscript]gl of things …
We give a general method of forcing over categories as a category-theoretic universal construction which subsumes, on one hand, all known instances of forcing in set theory, Boolean and Heyting valued models and sheaf interpretations for both classical and intuitionistic formal …
We develop the theory of compactness of maps between toposes, together with associated notions of separatedness. This theory is built around two versions of "propriety" for topos maps, introduced here in a parallel fashion. The first, giving what we simply call "proper" maps, is…