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    The odd markings on the necks of Moche clay pots probably functioned as ownership indicators.

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    • 1.Contemporary Peruvian potters use similar marks, called sígnales, to indicate ownership and reclaim work from shared kilns or storage facilities.
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    • 2.The Moche clay pots bear markings structurally similar to these sígnales.
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    • 1.Analogical inference requires structural similarity in causally relevant respects, not merely surface or visual resemblance (Hesse, 1966).
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    • 2.Contemporary Andean potters operate in market economies with property norms that did not exist in Moche society circa 100–800 CE.
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    • 3.Without evidence that Moche society had the requisite institutional infrastructure for ownership claims, the functional analogy collapses.
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    • 1.The same physical mark can serve radically different social functions across cultures, including ritual, clan identity, or workshop quality-control.
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    • 2.Peirce's distinction between indexical and symbolic signs entails that function cannot be read off from structural form without independent cultural evidence.
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    • 3.Selecting ownership as the most probable function among underdetermined alternatives commits the fallacy of privileging a familiar modern category.
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    Analogies have a related (and not entirely separable) justificatory role. This role is most obvious where an analogical argument is explicitly offered in support of some conclusion. The intended degree of support for the conclusion can vary considerably. At one extreme, these arguments can be strongly predictive. For example: Example 1. Hydrodynamic analogies exploit mathematical similarities between the equations governing ideal fluid flow and torsional problems. , a system of pipes through w
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