 It might be replied here that there are circumstances in which we tolerate statements of the form “A because B” when an appropriate identity—perhaps even identity of sense, or reference, or both—obtains between “A” and “B”. For example, we say things like “He is your first cousin because he is a child of a sibling of one of your parents” (Künne 2003: 155). But here it is plausible that there is a definitional connection between left-hand side and right-hand side, which seems not to hold of 