... causes a monkey to make that type of call as it is to say that the presence of an eagle normally causes a monkey to make that type of call.In normal circumstances, the presence of an eagle causes ... eagle-call in the presence of a child’s kite rather than a real eagle, we wouldsay that the call was a ‘false alarm’ – and rightly so, according to the teleological theory, because the call would ... just a single 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, and...