-It is instructive to examine the prototypical case, where $\mathscr{C} = \mathbf{Open}(X)$ for some topological space $X$. Here, the objects of $\mathscr{C}$ are the open sets of $X$ and the morphisms are given by the inclusions of open sets. We can view $\mathbf{Open}(X)$ as a subcategory of $\mathbf{Top}$ by corresponding each inclusion $V \subseteq U$ to its associated embedding $\iota_{V, U} \colon V \to U$. In this setting, a presheaf $\mathscr{F}$ on $X$ attaches to each open subset $U \subseteq X$ a set of _sections_ $\mathscr{F}(U)$; furthermore, for each inclusion $\iota_{V, U}$, there is a corresponding _restriction_ map $\operatorname{res}_{U, V}$ which takes a section in $\mathscr{F}(U)$ and restricts it to obtain a section in $\mathscr{F}(V)$. Any presheaf or sheaf on a topological space can be interpreted as arising from the sheaf of continuous sections to a larger space sitting above $X$, known as the étale space, $\operatorname{Et}(\mathscr{F})$. Here, sections in $\mathscr{F}(U)$ correspond to subspaces $\operatorname{Et}(\mathscr{F})$ which lie over $U$, and $\operatorname{res}_{V, U}(s)$ is just the set-theoretic restriction, which may also be written as the pullback $\iota_{V, U}^* s$.
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