 Given that there is this distinction between explanations, one can correspondingly distinguish between two types of brute facts, the epistemically brute facts and the metaphysically brute facts. Since epistemic explanations and metaphysical explanations themselves come in various types, one can actually make more fine-grained distinctions. Thus, for instance, if deductive-nomological explanations count as epistemic explanations, one can introduce the notion of a “deductive-nomologically brute fact”, i.e. of a fact that has no deductive-nomological explanation. And given that grounding explanations (explanations given by pointing to a ground) count as metaphysical explanations, one can introduce the notion of a “ground-theoretically brute fact”, i.e. of a fact that has no grounding explanation.