Objects are geometric formulas in context modulo provable equivalence. Morphisms are provably total, single-valued geometric relations; composition is existential conjunction. Conjunction and equality give finite limits. Interpreting formulas in a model gives a finite-limit-preserving functor, with the additional continuity condition supplied by the geometric syntactic topology.
A family of definable arrows covers a formula when the theory proves that their images jointly exhaust that formula. Such covers encode disjunction and existential quantification. The resulting site presents the classifying topos of the geometric theory. Adding geometric axioms adds covering sieves, yielding the duality between geometric quotients and subtoposes.
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