 The view offers an elegant account of surrogative reasoning. Similarities between model and target can be exploited to carry over insights gained in the model to the target. If the similarity between \(M\) and \(T\) is based on shared properties, then a property found in \(M\) would also have to be present in \(T\); and if the similarity holds between properties themselves, then \(T\) would have to instantiate properties similar to \(M\).