Full Idea
The direction of conceptual explanations seems to be owed to factors of conceptual complexity and primitiveness.
Gist of Idea
There are 'conceptual' explanations, with their direction depending on complexity
Source
Benjamin Schnieder (Truth-making without Truth-makers [2006], p.33), quoted by David Liggins - Truth-makers and dependence 10.2
Book Reference
'Metaphysical Grounding', ed/tr. Correia,F/Schnieder,B [CUP 2012], p.257
A Reaction
Schnieder proposes that there are just 'causal' and 'conceptual' explanations. Liggins objects that there are other types of dependence which offer explanations.
Related Idea
Idea 17321 Value, constitution and realisation are non-causal dependences that explain [Liggins]