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Causal Order

Causal Order refers to the practice of organizing information to illustrate cause-and-effect relationships.


Human beings are we curious. To better understand our world,we ask

  1. Why are things like this?
  2. What is the effect, or result, of this?
  3. What is the cause of this?

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