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

To a simple sequence we attach no importance, but a causal sequence or consequence that has been observed is a mainstay of inference.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

I should expect the causal sequence to be the exact reverse of that which Fisher indicates.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

Strictly speaking, as we shall find, Science has only one method of directly observing when events are in causal sequence.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William