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
My own explanation of the causal sequence whereby expanding trade brings money into a country would be radically different from that given by Fisher in the first quotation.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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 William Minto
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 William Minto
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