It looks to me like you’re saying something along the lines of ‘wait, reverse reductionism is a core part of causation because the properties of the higher level model are caused by the properties of the lower level model.’ I think it makes sense to differentiate between reductionism (and doing it in reverse) and temporal causation, though they are linked.
I agree with the point that if someone is trying to figure out the word “because” you haven’t fully explained it until you’ve unpacked each of its meanings into something crisp, and that saying “because means temporal causation” is a mistake because it obscures those other meanings. But I also think it’s a mistake to not carve out temporal causation and discuss that independent of the other sorts of causation.
It looks to me like you’re saying something along the lines of ‘wait, reverse reductionism is a core part of causation because the properties of the higher level model are caused by the properties of the lower level model.’ I think it makes sense to differentiate between reductionism (and doing it in reverse) and temporal causation, though they are linked.
I agree with the point that if someone is trying to figure out the word “because” you haven’t fully explained it until you’ve unpacked each of its meanings into something crisp, and that saying “because means temporal causation” is a mistake because it obscures those other meanings. But I also think it’s a mistake to not carve out temporal causation and discuss that independent of the other sorts of causation.