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

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.

And is not the causal sequence precisely the reverse of that assigned by the quantity theory?

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.