causal nexus

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“He seems to have established a sufficient causal nexus between Councilperson Wade and the alleged constitutional injury of his arrest,” the court said in an unsigned opinion in February.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

“Even if pesticide residues are found, a causal nexus cannot be drawn,” Félix Carvalho, a toxicologist at the University of Porto, in Portugal, says.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2016

It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make full use of the conception of the organism as an historical being it is necessary then to understand the causal nexus between ontogeny and phylogeny.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The psychical phenomena he regards as transcendental, supernatural, “mystical,” yet unquestionably also subject to a strict causal nexus, although the causality must remain for ever concealed.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf