 According to a more thoroughgoing pluralism, there are a number of fundamentally different kinds of metaphysical explanation. Such a view can be motivated in a number of ways that do not at first glance presuppose particular views about whether relations of non-causal dependence like grounding, essence, and reduction reduce to one another. Litland (2013) and Richardson (2020), for instance, distinguish between how-explanation, which tells us how or the specific way in which something is the case and why-explanation, which tells us why it is the case at all. Bertrand (2019) further recognizes a class of metaphysical explanations by constraint: “top-down” metaphysical explanations which show how particular instances fit into a general scheme. These different kinds of explanation are plausibly elicited by the asking of different questions.