If thread-colour invariably and universally precedes cloth without exception, excluding it as a cause requires a principled metaphysical distinction that bare regularity theory does not supply.

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Bare regularity(as used in metaphysics): Just a pattern or coincidence that keeps repeating, with no deeper reason or connection explaining why it happens.
Principled distinction(as used in logic and argumentation): A clear, logical reason or rule that separates one thing from another—not just an arbitrary difference, but one based on something meaningful.
Regularity theory (of causation)(as used in metaphysics): A theory that says something causes something else if it always happens before it in a predictable pattern—but without requiring any deeper explanation for *why* that pattern happens.
causation(Lewis's counterfactual theory of causation): Event C causes event E if and only if there exists a chain C, D1, …, Dn, E such that each member (except C) is counterfactually dependent on the preceding event; causation is the ancestral of counterfactual dependence

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