Causality Between Metaphysical Necessity and the Operational Economy of Linkage: Toward a MARP-Based Account of Causal Order

This article examines causality in light of MARP: Metaphysics of the Absolute and Reference Points and argues that causality should be understood neither as a self-subsisting metaphysical necessity nor as a mere accidental conjunction, but as an operational economy of linkage. On this account, causal legitimacy depends on three interrelated conditions: sufficient determination of identity, the possibility of explanatory and practical passage, and the reduction of explanatory cost while preserving revisability. Causality is thus not a hidden force added to the world, but a disciplined mode of organizing change within a determinate level of attribution. The study further argues that causal judgment is conditioned by stabilized identity, bounded by medium, reference, and measured item, and evaluated through passage, stability across copies, cost reduction, and openness to correction. In this way, the article relocates causality from metaphysical dogma to a disciplined and revisable horizon of philosophical analysis. This formulation is explicit in the article’s title, opening sections, and concluding argument.