The historical prevalence of non-transitive causal ontologies across traditions suggests transitivity is a contested norm, not the criterion distinguishing metaphysical from epistemic causation.
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Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
transitivity(Applied to the temporal relation 'earlier than' on a set of worlds W)
A property of a relation R such that if wRv and vRu, then wRu