Full Idea
Showing the succession of things ever more clearly is what's named 'explanation': no more than that!
Gist of Idea
Explanation is just showing the succession of things ever more clearly
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 35[52])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.21
A Reaction
If you lay bare all causal sequences, you may not have explained anything until you have pointed out a pattern in the events. Explanations must partly depend on the interests of the enquirer, so pure catalogues of events won't do.