Full Idea
Nothing about ontology is at stake in questions of explanation, for explanatory success is contingent upon the modes of presentation of explanans and explananda, and relative states of knowledge and ignorance.
Gist of Idea
Ontology is unrelated to explanation, which concerns modes of presentation and states of knowledge
Source
Stephen Mumford (Dispositions [1998], 06.8)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.140
A Reaction
There are real facts about the immediate and unusual causes which immediately precede an event, and these might be candidates for a real explanation. There are also real mechanisms and powers which dictate a things behaviour.