Conflict description about transaction

[VetchM]

At chapter 6 Transactions it says:

Transactions are signed messages originated by an externally owned account(EOA)

But at chapter 13 The Ethereum Virtual Machine it says:

Note that because a smart contract can itself effectively initiate transactions, code execution is a recursive process

This is very confusing and misleading, since contract can't actually initiate transactions; maybe change the sentence in chapter 13 to:
"Note that because a smart contract can make external calls to other contracts, code execution is a recursive process"