"prespace" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "To speak of \"the space of three dimensions\" (represented abstractly as a coordinate grid), or \"space occupied by matter posihoned within it,\" is to speak about the product aspect. The process aspect is the \"prespace\" of transition in presencing.",
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          "ref": "2005, Metod Saniga, Rosolino Buccheri, Avshalom C Elitzur, Endophysics, Time, Quantum And The Subjective:",
          "text": "Our prequantum space — prespace — is essentially larger than the ordinary classical space.",
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          "ref": "2008, Ervin László, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, Rochester, V.T.: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, page 113:",
          "text": "At the logically extrapolated but empirically unverifiable beginning of the cosmic process, only the field domain existed, in a primordial state. This was a spatially and temporally unbounded sea of fluctuating virtual energies: the prespace of the actualized universe.",
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