ABSTRACT
On Mill's official account of explanation, all explanations of singular facts seemed to require laws of efficient causality (although we noted that there was some evidence that Mill himself was prepared to consider the matter differently). Hempel, on the other hand, specifically allows for non-causal explanations of singular facts. Plato and Aristotle used ‘cause’ so widely that, even though all explanations invoke a ‘causal’ factor, much more is included than Mill would certainly have allowed. Whose claim is (more nearly) correct?
