 Here it may be worth combining something of the Horwich view with something of Fodor’s aforementioned cousin suggestion of the asymmetric counterfactual (§4.2), along lines suggested by Rey (2009; 2020a, §10.3): the new “dead” uses of an idiom or metaphor no longer asymmetrically depend upon the explanatorily basic use. “Eye of a needle” would still mean the hole at the end of a needle, even if “eye” no longer referred to animal eyes. But “eye” used to refer to, say, the drawing of an eye, would both asymmetrically and explanatorily depend upon its being used to refer to actual eyes. And describing a three-way correspondence as “triangular” may asymmetrically and explanatorily depend upon thinking of certain geometric figures as triangular, but not vice versa – despite the impossibility of there ever being any actual triangles in the external world (see Allott and Textor, 2022, for development of this suggestion). Taking the asymmetric dependency to be “internally” explanatory relieves it of the excessive externalism with which Fodor burdened it, while avoiding the etymologies and dead metaphors facing Horwich’s view on its own.