 Personal explanations are not truth-bearers but are correct or incorrect and successful or unsuccessful. Impersonal explanations are true or false but not correct or incorrect, successful or unsuccessful. What is the relation between personal and impersonal explanations? Plausibly, one connection between the two is this: if a personal explanation is successful, then the person on the receiving end of the explanation must grasp some true impersonal explanation thanks to the explanation. Personal explanation is arguably irrelevant to the notion of bruteness, and accordingly from now on we will focus on impersonal explanation.