A [tight apartness relation](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/apartness+relation) on a set is a binary relation $\#$ such that the following conditions hold: * $x = y$ if and only if $\neg (x \# y)$. * If $x \# y$, then $y \# x$. * If $x \# z$, then either $x \# y$ or $y \# z$ for every $y$. I want to understand this notion better. Classically, it is completely trivial. Thus, it makes sense to look at it in various toposes. I tried to use the Kripke-Joyal semantics to get the external interpretation of an arbitrary object of a topos with a tight apartness relation, but it seems that it does not give anything particularly interesting in general. Thus, I've got the following question: > **Question:** What are examples of objects in toposes with a tight apartness relation which externally correspond to some interesting or useful notion? Since constructively, a set can have more than one tight apartness relation on it, I'd like to see examples of an object with two different tight apartness relations which both have interesting interpretations. **Edit:** There are several "generic" examples of objects with tight apartness relations, i.e., objects that can be defined in every topos (e.g., Dedekind reals). I'm particularly interested in "non-generic" examples, i.e., objects that can be constructed only in a specific topos.