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Is there a concrete application of topos theory?

The notion of topos was originally formulated in SGA 4 in the context of attacking the Weil conjectures. This formalism turned out to be unnecessary for the purposes of proving those conjectures. But ...
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Is there a measure / probability theory in a topos of "generalized measure spaces"?

Consider the category with the standard Lebesgue measure space $\Omega$ as its only object and measure type preserving nonincreasing (equivalence classes of) maps as morphisms. Question: is there an ...
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