 One influential idea is that explanatory connectives such as ‘because’ or ‘in virtue of’ introduce a basic notion of ground (Fine 2012). ‘Because’ and ‘in virtue of’ are arguably asymmetric and irreflexive, and they generate hyper-intensional contexts (Schnieder 2011). They are part of ordinary discourse, and we are competent in using these expressions. When taken in a non-causal sense, or in a context where these connectives do not track causal dependencies, they may give access to the sort of metaphysical dependence philosophers have sought to capture for decades, if not centuries. 