This is known as regression analysis - inventing a system to explain past occurrences.

The Court proposed what is known as the Handy test for determining whether past occurrences that resemble the crime can be admitted as evidence.

The cause of your recollection must be both the peat-smoke and the past occurrence.

You have an image of the past occurrence, and you say to yourself: "Yes, that's how it was."

Frequently there is a theatrical quality in the way a metaphoric, deep foreground seems to suggest the past occurrence of some ominous event.

A further objection to the phenomenalist answer is that generally speaking, conditionals are not true in virtue of their past occurrences.

Neither point was consistent with past occurrences.

This approach attempts to predict future events based on the past occurrences of unexpected outcomes.

They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering.

There are several sources for establishing the past occurrence and frequency of megadroughts, including: