 It has sometimes been thought that commitment to a spacetime framework, as is often explicit in treatments of special (and general) relativity, is tantamount to commitment to eternalism or the ‘block universe’, since to say that spacetime points exist seems inconsistent with saying that some spacetime points are future and so do not exist yet or are past and so exist no longer. If some distinction of the type just sketched can be made between categorial and non-categorial existence statements, then eternalism is not a straightforward consequence of adopting the spacetime  viewpoint.[8]  One can consistently affirm the category of events without also affirming that particular events exist (occur, happen) now or at any other specified time. (See §3.4 of Arthur (2019) for more detail.)