A chain of events is a number of actions and their effects that are contiguous and linked together that results in a particular outcome.
Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and behaviour, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of events.
[1] With numerous historical debates, many philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist from traditions throughout the world.
In value theory, it is the amount of cause and effects of the chain of events before generating intrinsic value that separates high and low grades of instrumental value.
In accident analysis (for example, in the analysis of aviation accidents), a chain of events (or error chain) consists of the contributing factors leading to an undesired outcome.