... asincluding a state of affairs S of a certain type just in case astate of affairs of S’s type is normally the cause of a belief of B’s type but B was not in fact caused by a state of affairs of S’s type.However, ... just asingle state of affairs, S, which is ‘the’ cause of a given beliefB. For, in virtue of the transitivity of causation, if a state of affairs, S1, causes another state of affairs, S2, ... represents the world as including a state of affairs S of a certain type just in case a state of affairs of S’s type is normally the cause of a belief of B’s type.Then we could say that a belief...