PrepTest 88, Section 2, Question 18
Anthropologists have long debated whether the customs of a culture invariably function to preserve it. According to one proposed definition, a culture is the totality of the customs practiced by those whose culture it is. If this definition is correct, then the customs of a culture necessarily function to preserve it, even if only in the most trivial sense, because, under this conception of a culture, the abandonment of any custom by a culture's members would by definition constitute that culture's destruction.
Anthropologists have long debated whether the customs of a culture invariably function to preserve it. According to one proposed definition, a culture is the totality of the customs practiced by those whose culture it is. If this definition is correct, then the customs of a culture necessarily function to preserve it, even if only in the most trivial sense, because, under this conception of a culture, the abandonment of any custom by a culture's members would by definition constitute that culture's destruction.
Anthropologists have long debated whether the customs of a culture invariably function to preserve it. According to one proposed definition, a culture is the totality of the customs practiced by those whose culture it is. If this definition is correct, then the customs of a culture necessarily function to preserve it, even if only in the most trivial sense, because, under this conception of a culture, the abandonment of any custom by a culture's members would by definition constitute that culture's destruction.
Anthropologists have long debated whether the customs of a culture invariably function to preserve it. According to one proposed definition, a culture is the totality of the customs practiced by those whose culture it is. If this definition is correct, then the customs of a culture necessarily function to preserve it, even if only in the most trivial sense, because, under this conception of a culture, the abandonment of any custom by a culture's members would by definition constitute that culture's destruction.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the argument by the statement that under a certain conception of culture, the abandonment of any custom by a culture's members would constitute that culture's destruction?
It is the main conclusion drawn in the argument.
It is a definition of a technical term used in the argument.
It is a claim that is used to support a conditional conclusion drawn in the argument.
It is a claim that is used to support the view that a culture should be understood as a totality of customs.
It is a claim ascribed by the argument to some anthropologists but dismissed by the argument as trivial.
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