An explanation identifying the concrete individual sequence of events, thoughts or actions that resulted in a particular outcome for a particular individual is a nomothetic causal explanation.

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A nomothetic causal explanation seeks to identify general laws or principles that apply across many cases, rather than focusing on the specific sequence of events in a single case, which is characteristic of an idiographic causal explanation.

An Explanation Identifying the Concrete Individual Sequence of Events, Thoughts