 One option is to offer (1) as a grounding explanation. There is considerable controversy over what grounding is, and (as we shall see) how grounding and explanations are related and how grounding explanations work. We can stay somewhat neutral in saying that they typically work by citing more fundamental facts—in the case of (1), a fact about property sharing—that in some sense non-causally “gives rise to”, “produces”, or “generates” less fundamental facts—in this case, a fact of resemblance among particulars. We say “typically”, since one may count as grounding explanations those that merely provide information about the grounds of a given fact (presumably of some contextually relevant type; see §5.4), rather than by citing its ground directly, as in (1*):