The phrase "a causal consequence of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an effect that is directly linked to a specific cause or event.
Example: "The increase in pollution levels is a causal consequence of industrial activities in the region."
Alternatives: "a direct result of" or "an effect of".
Our behavior seems to be a causal consequence of our beliefs and desires; moreover, the content of those beliefs and desires seems to be centrally involved in the causation of behavior.
Adaptation is a causal consequence of divergent selection associated with different habitats or ecological niches [3].
Temporarily disruption of pMTG functioning post-TMS directly led to performance deficits during tasks of high semantic control requirements, disproving the alternative view that brain activation in pMTG during fMRI is a by-product rather than a causal consequence of manipulations in executive semantic demands.
(That I desire to eat an ice cream cone, for example, appears to be a causal consequence not of my willing anything in particular but of your handing me one).
Clearly, some features of aphasias are a direct causal consequence of neuronal dysfunction, and may restrict patients to a very limited set of utterances, a single recurring utterance in the extreme, or to phonologically distorted jargon.
Many other things happen as a downstream causal consequence of the order of amino acids, but to paraphrase Godfrey Smith's argument, genes do not 'code for' these downstream causal consequences for the same reason that President Nixon's order to cover up the Watergate scandal was not an 'order' to get him impeached by Congress.
Not every desire or mental state we have is the causal consequence of our having exercised our agent power in a given way.
Reid would have to say, then, that those mental states and events that are not simply the causal consequence of our having exercised our agent power are parts of processes instigated by some other agent cause, such as God.
An alternative reply is to adopt a proximate consequentialism that only assesses the direct causal consequences of an act or otherwise more narrowly circumscribes the delineation of consequences (see Sinott-Armstrong 2011 for an account of direct causal consequentialism, see Collins, Hall, Paul 2004 on denying the transitivity of causation).
Both the inclusive care argument and the funerals argument illustrate another common Mohist rhetorical strategy: tracing the causal consequences of a doctrine or policy, typically to show that Mohist doctrine yields results that tally with some standard while an opposing doctrine does not.
Consider how a researcher might address the causal consequences of having several indicators obtained by the same method.
