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If the view that a culture is an amalgamation of the customs practiced by its members is correct, then the customs of a culture function to preserve it. This is because the abandonment of any custom would lead to the destruction of that culture.
The statement is a premise that supports the conditional conclusion by showing the implication of defining culture as the totality of customs.
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This is not descriptively accurate. There is no claim that culture should be understood as a totality of customs. This is just one proposed definition of culture.
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The claim is ascribed to some anthropologists, but the argument does not dismiss it as trivial.
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