The connection between a cause(s) and an effect in this way can also be referred to as a causal nexus.
Social psychology, in apparent contrast, has focused on social attitudes towards disabled people as the causal nexus, and is thus not open to this criticism.
The complex causal nexus of volitions (or intentions) which one experiences continuously conditions one's thoughts, speech, and actions.
This does not mean that it is that causal nexus; it is better understood as an abstract reflection.
Phenomena considered purely externally call for a rational explanation for establishing causal nexus, whereas to understand authentic form requires imaginative interpretation.
To put this differently and more technically, I do not believe that the causal nexus of history, or that of nature, could be broken.
I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken.
Through a causal nexus, this painting would have been available to Rubens and thereby plausible for its influence to exist within Rubens's own genius on canvas.
They are not merely representations in an idealized logical space, but events within a causal nexus.
The causal nexus was broken if there intervened, between the culpa of the defendant and the damage, some other cause without which the damage would not have occurred.