https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdetermination

The nature of cause is that events are multiply determined — in that they result from what can be understood as a layered array of causal factors — rather than merely one, as our relationships with language incline us to assert, think, or believe.

The specific constellation of causal factors we include or assert emerges from a fundamental relationship with perspective and the temporal scope (range of time) that bounds our perspectives and the purposes for which they are selected, emphasized and evaluated for their contributions to an effect.

When one is attempting to refine one’s thinking about cause and effect, the move from monocausal thinking to constellated causal thinking is a vast advancement. Add to this the capacity to understand the interplay of temporal scope, purpose, and perspectival selectivity and your capacity to think not only about cause and effect, but the nature of identity will be radically improved.

The from the concept of overdetermination is also related to this topic.