#14 - Global Reference, Must Be True, Purpose/Function

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[lathlee]

Hi. the fact that D) is the correct answer is even more confusing after reading Mr. Adam Tyson's critique for my viewstamp analysis. Also, I went with E) in first place as well, the text spends a significant time of explaining the culture of naming in HOpian culture (it's beauty) and how Western world doesn't get it which is E) is about

Are Mills and Straus making arguments? I don't see any premises to support their claims. Those are just facts - the author saying what they said. Don't seek to turn statements into arguments - there is enough work to do on these passages without seeing arguments around every corner.

Back away from the tremendous amount of work you are putting into these analyses. I suspect that it's eating into your time, a lot, and time is a precious commodity on this test! Keep it simple, keep it concise, predict questions, note where things are, and get to the questions. More than that and you are losing sight of the goal here, which is to answer questions based on the text. VIEWSTAMP is good and helpful, but it's not the goal - it's a tool to help you reach that goal. Put too much effort into the tool and there's no time left to put it to use!

[Francis O'Rourke]

Hi Lathlee,

I believe that Adam was trying to say that you should not see entire arguments present in the discussion of Mill and Levi-Strauss. That is, the author did not present us with Mill's and Levi-Strauss's evidence, rationales, and conclusion. Instead we were simply given their conclusions.

As Adam said in that post:

Are Mills and Straus making arguments? I don't see any premises to support their claims.

From what I can see in Adam's response, he does agree that there are claims — or maybe hypotheses, theories, or conclusions — present, but not fully formed arguments.

The nomenclature does get difficult to interpret at times, so don't worry about it so much. Are we given "two influential views" as answer choice (D) implicitly states? Sure.

What exactly is a view, and how is distinguished from an argument or a theory? Don't worry about that. When you come across trivially small differences like this, chances are you are missing the larger points at play.

I definitely agree with Adam's advice to

Back away from the tremendous amount of work you are putting into these analyses.

If you are still having trouble with this question, start by reflecting on where you believed you found the author explaining the "cultural origins of names." After reading this passage, are you prepared to answer me if I asked "where do names come from?"

[cd1010]

Could someone clarify why A is incorrect? It seems to me that A and D are flipsides of each other. I realize that the passage is framed in relation to the European thinkers, but it seems to me that A foregrounds Hopi names more, which I feel like captures the focus of the passage?

[Adam Tyson]

This passage is a good example of a classic Reading Comp structure that we sometimes refer to as "Some People Say." Passages built on this structure usually begin with the author telling us what someone (not the author, but someone else) thinks or feels of believes, and they then proceed to show us why those people are wrong to think, feel, or believe that thing. When we encounter that structure, the Main Point of the passage is that those people are wrong.

All the discussion of Hopi names here is in service of the idea that Mills and Levi-Strauss are wrong. The passage begins with showing us that they have neglected something, and also wraps up by reiterating the claim that they are mistaken in their views. While the bulk of the text is about the Hopi and their naming conventions, that's still all just the evidence and not the main idea.

Ask yourself this question: what does the author want me to believe? Do they only wish to convey information about Hopi names, or do they want us to believe that Hopi names are one relevant example that demonstrates how Mills and Levi-Strauss are incorrect? I think this line from the first paragraph should help answer that question:

Consequently, interpretation of personal names in societies where names have other functions and meanings has been neglected.

This means that there are societies (plural) that do something with personal names other than what those two Europeans have considered, and the Hopi are used only as an example to illustrate the shortcomings of that Euro-centric view.