 the basic relation that generates an explanatory relation is a logico-linguistic one that connects descriptions of events, and the job of formulating an explanation consists, it seems, in merely re-arranging appropriate items in the body of propositions that constitute our total knowledge at a time. In explaining something, then, all action takes place within the epistemic system, on the subjective side of the divide between knowledge and the reality known, or between representation and the world represented. (Kim 1994 [2010: 171–172])