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

Since, however, extension and thought are not two substances, but attributes of one substance, this apparently double causal nexus of two series proceeding in exact correspondence is, in reality, but a single one.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

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