“[T]he debate can be solved by advancing a tertium quid, a third option between classical substantivalism and relationism.
Ths option, which I call structural spacetime realism, sides with the latter doctrine in defending the relational nature of
spacetime, but argues with the former that spacetime exists, at least in part, independently of particular physical objects and
events …” (Dorato, 2000, pp. 1607–1608).