{{Short description|Sequence of related actions and effects}} {{For|the 1958 film ''Chain of Events''|Chain of Events}} A '''chain of events''' is a number of actions and their effects that are contiguous and linked together that results in a particular outcome. In the physical sciences, chain reactions are a primary example.
==Determinism== {{Main|Determinism}} ''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''.<ref>Van Inwagen, Peter, 1983, ''An Essay on Free Will'', Oxford: Clarendon Press.</ref> With numerous historical debates, many philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist from traditions throughout the world.
==In value theory== 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. The ''chain of events duration'' is the time it takes to reach the terminal event. In value theory this is generally the intrinsic value (also called terminal value). It is contrasted with ethic value duration, which is the time that an object has any value intensity.
==In accident analysis== {{Main|Chain of events (accident analysis)}} 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.<ref name="GFDPrivate">{{cite book |author=Willits, Pat |others=Mike Abbott and Liz Kailey |title=Guided Flight Discovery: Private Pilot |url=http://www.jeppesen.com/wlcs/application/commercewf?origin=itemsummary.jsp&event=link(details)&wlcs_catalog_item_sku=JS314500&wlcs_catalog_category_id=AT1A1A8&wlcs_document_type=details |year=2007 |publisher=Jeppesen |location=Englewood |isbn=978-0-88487-429-4 |oclc=145504766 |pages=10–26 |access-date=2008-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011033547/http://www.jeppesen.com/wlcs/application/commercewf?origin=itemsummary.jsp&event=link(details)&wlcs_catalog_item_sku=JS314500&wlcs_catalog_category_id=AT1A1A8&wlcs_document_type=details |archive-date=2007-10-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlgaHNs3EjoC&dq=%22chain+of+events%22+accidents&pg=PA21|title=Improving Safety-related Rules Compliance in the Public Transportation Industry|first=Judith B.|last=Gertler|date=11 March 2018|publisher=Transportation Research Board|isbn=9780309213554|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4n4dBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22chain+of+events%22+accidents&pg=PA84|title=International Conference on Social, Education and Management Engineering|date=9 July 2014|publisher=DEStech Publications, Inc|isbn=9781605951850|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rn9Sbl9jMzIC&dq=%22chain+of+events%22+accidents&pg=PA133|title=Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques, Second Edition|first=Charles D.|last=Reese|date=25 October 2011|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781439855096|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdtY7uQeu-YC&dq=%22chain+of+events%22+accidents&pg=PA16|title=Principles of Risk-Based Decision Making|first=In c ABS|last=Consulting|date=1 February 2002|publisher=Government Institutes|isbn=9781461624912|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ceuq9P4hLJMC&dq=%22chain+of+events%22+accidents&pg=RA1-PT590|title=Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety|first=Jeanne Mager|last=Stellman|date=11 March 1998|publisher=International Labour Organization|isbn=9789221092032|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==See also== * Chain reaction * Domino effect
==References== {{Reflist}} {{metaphysics-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chain Of Events}} Category:Action (physics) Category:Determinism Category:Causality Category:Concepts in metaphysics