The phrase "a chain of causes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of events or actions that lead to a particular outcome, often in a causal relationship.
Example: "The environmental disaster was the result of a chain of causes, including industrial pollution and deforestation."
Alternatives: "a series of causes" or "a sequence of events".
Every mode of being presupposes another immediately preceding mode from which the subsequent mode derives, in a chain of causes.
Childhood should not be considered a chain of causes leading to an ultimate effect: you do this so that will happen.
Toyota engineers are famously drilled to "ask why five times" to follow a chain of causes and effects back to a problem's root.
If the world nonetheless appears to be a chain of causes and effects, that is because the monads are programmed to behave in such a way that they seem to be interacting.
BEHIND THE NEWS The slump has now rippled far down a chain of causes and effects: The credit crisis dried up spending by American consumers, which undercut growth in China, whose manufacturers sell them goods; that, in turn, clobbered Taiwan, which depends heavily on trade with the once-booming mainland.
Khayyam discusses issues such as necessity, causality, and the impossibility of a chain of causes and effects continuing ad infinitum.
The intuitive appeal of such stories illustrates the human tendency to see things that happen in sequence — first the positive thinking, then the positive results — as forming a chain of cause and effect.
Establishing a chain of cause and effect can amount to little more than wishful thinking, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to imagine that a Labour party led by, say, Alan Johnson would have done better in 2010, while one led by David Miliband, despite his connections to the Iraq tragedy, could have won outright in 2015.
Any person with even a little experience in retailing understands intuitively that there is a chain of cause and effect running from employee behavior to customer behavior to profits, and it's not hard to see that behavior depends primarily on attitude.
In a few cases when an effect was also a cause of a different effect variable (i.e. a chain of cause-effect relations), we analysed this as two separate cause-effect relations.
It refers to the becoming or the start of a chain of cause and effect.
