No, no. Make's principal purpose is to put a set of files into a desired state. It can "make" a particular file by invoking a dependent graph of commands that produce that file from other files. It checks timestamps and only run steps where the resulting files are older than some of the (transitive) source files.

You can invoke it by naming a named rule, not a file, but the logic will remain.

If this is not what you want to be doing, and if your Makefile is full of .PHONY targets, you likely need a Justfile instead, or (worse) plain shell scripts.