surrogative

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This return, and its attendant anxieties, is averted by a surrogative shift to a passage from Joshua which focuses on the

Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006
Significant parts of scientific investigation are carried out on models rather than on reality itself because by studying a model we can discover features of and ascertain facts about the system the model stands for; in brief, models allow for surrogative reasoning (Swoyer 1991).

Models in Science Frigg, Roman 2006