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Classical point-set topology using Grothendieck topologies

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but under one way to interpret the question, an answer is that the theory of locales is a well-developed alternative to the classical theory of topological space …
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Grothendieck topology for a non-small category

The other answers are all good, but I thought I would also point out that one doesn't have to require that sites be small, or have small dense sub-sites, or satisfy WISC. I think one does generally w …
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Coverage, itself considered as a presheaf

First of all, Andreas' comment is right: a coverage gives no specified way to "pull back" a covering family of $U$ to a covering family of $V$. However, if you consider what Sketches of an Elephant c …
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Do Categorical Quotients Preserve Covering Maps?

If by "topology" you mean the usual notion of "Grothendieck topology" (and not something weaker like "Grothendieck pretopology"), then the answer is yes. In fact, if $C$ is any site and $p\colon U\to …
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Has this "backwards" perspective on toposes been studied?

Actually, the closure operator of a topology is a finite colimit preserving monad on a powerset.
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What is the total space of a stack after all?

Suppose $\mathscr{C}$ is the stackification of an internal category $C$ in $\mathbf{X}$. In this case, since $\mathrm{Sets}(\mathbf{X})$ is a stack, morphisms of stacks $\mathscr{C}^{\mathrm{op}} \to …
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