causal sequence

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“The causal sequence is laughter triggers endorphin activation,” he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2011

Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fallacy entitled Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc—"After, therefore, Because of"—consisted in alleging mere sequence as a proof of consequence or causal sequence.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

It is this empty show of respect which the interactionists 253 seek to avoid when they make the mental a distinct link in the causal sequence.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

For the practical purposes of life, a single ascertained causal sequence is of little value as a basis of inference, because we can infer only to its repetition in identical circumstances.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William