Full Idea
Explanations typically relate statements, not events.
Gist of Idea
Explanations typically relate statements, not events
Source
Donald Davidson (Causal Relations [1967], §4)
Book Reference
Davidson,Donald: 'Essays on Actions and Events' [OUP 1982], p.161
A Reaction
An oddly linguistic way of putting our attempts to understand the world. Presumably the statements are supposed to be about the events (or whatever), and they are supposed to be true, so we are trying to relate features of the world.