 In contrast, metaphysical explanations at least appear to work in a rather different manner. (1) seems to work at least in part due to some relationship between Socrates and the bust of him on the one hand, and a fact about those two plus a further entity, a property, on the other. Whatever that relationship is, it seems radically different from ordinary causal ones, for instance in being synchronic rather than diachronic. The same can be said about (2), which invokes a synchronic relationship between a determinable property and its determinates. Similarly, (3) seems to work at least in part due to how the essential nature of a thing non-causally constrains what features it can have, while (4) seems to work at least in part due to there being no difference between being just and having a well-ordered soul, which would appear to preclude any causal relationships between them.