How We Perceive Space. Space in terms of a void is not something that our mind, as a function of our brain, is able or inclined to comprehend.  For space is nothing to us unless it is perceived as a function of an object, since that is precisely what our mind is, whose object is the brain.  Objects determine space and they do so in one of two principal ways: either in terms of the space between objects, which is spatial, or in terms of the relative positions, in space, of objects one to another, which is spaced.  In the first case, we have room between this and that.  In the second case, this is here and that is there, whether to left or right, above or beneath, behind or in front, and so on.  The first, moored in a spatial vacuum, is arguably a metachemical perception and the latter an antimetachemical conception or, more correctly, antiperception in which space is less important than what fills it and how.  In neither case do we have anything metaphysical, but it could certainly be argued that the spaced take on space owes a lot to metaphysical pressures emanating from a male hegemonic position in time, which is repetitive, and is therefore, as antispace, more antifemale than female.  Its male or, rather, antimale counterpart would be the sequential approach to time as antitime which, being antimetaphysical, owes a lot to metachemical pressures emanating from a female hegemonic position in space, which is spatial, and therefore concerned with the spaces between objects such that can only extend time or draw it out proportionately.