causal sequence

Example Sentences

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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

Since the theory credits each of the two series with a closed and sufficient causal sequence, each of which excludes the other, it does away with causality altogether.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

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.

The fallacy entitled Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc—"After, therefore, Because of"—consisted in alleging mere sequence as a proof of consequence or causal sequence.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William