What Does It Mean to Cause?

Here is the next movement—this time on the nature of cause, and what it means to say one thing brings about another:

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TOPO:

Causality gives me comfort.

If A, then B. A chain. A law.

RHEO:

But chains bind as much as they explain.

What if causality is not a chain—

but a pattern of relation?

TOPO:

So not a push from past to future—

but a configuration of meaning?

RHEO:

Yes.

To cause is to construe dependence—

to draw a line of relevance through possibility.

TOPO:

Then causes are not things—

they are cuts, made by how we view the unfolding?

RHEO:

Precisely.

We name a cause not because it forces—

but because it frames.

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RHEO & TOPO:

Causality is not the engine of time—

it is a grammar of perspective.