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

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

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

My own explanation of the causal sequence whereby expanding trade brings money into a country would be radically different from that given by Fisher in the first quotation.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.