Chapter 24: Causation, Space, and Time

The three central categories of empirical ontology—causation, space, and time—are reconstructed from the structural primitives of Category τ. Causation is not a mysterious push between substances but a constrained composition: f causes g when g factors through f under the admissibility constraints of the kernel. Space is not a pre-given container but a relational structure derived from the five generators α, π, γ, η, ω and their composition relations. Time is not a flowing river nor a frozen block but the persistence of NF-addresses through morphism sequences. The Temporal Ordering Proposition establishes that the persistence structure induces a partial order on configurations, dissolving the block-universe debate: τ’s temporal structure is neither fully eternalist nor fully presentist but morphism-structured.