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

Whether the causal sequence holds or not as a matter of fact, we depend upon it if we believe in it as a matter of fact.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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.

One large department of Inductive Logic, the so-called Experimental Methods, is designed to help us in thus making sure, i.e., in ascertaining causal sequence as a matter of fact.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William