# The Matter of Events **Opening (not a real abstract):** N THIS PAPER, I aim to develop a framework for thinking about matters of temporal ontology that enables us to understand a distinction between two categories of time-occupiers; a distinction often characterized as that between processes and accomplishments. After broadly characterizing this distinction, I argue that existing attempts to explain and understand this distinction fail. I maintain that the route to understanding this distinction is to further develop an analogy between spatial and temporal notions suggested in a number of places in the literature; for example by Alexander Mourelatos and 1 Barry Taylor. When this analogy is satisfactorily developed, it is possible to explain what correctness there is in existing attempts to characterize this distinction, and to explain some further puzzling **Authors:** [[Crowther]]