Quoting New Dialectical Rules for Ambiguity, Douglas Walton, Informal Logic, Vol. 20, p. 261-274, 2000

when interpreting an ambiguous term in a text of discourse, the interpretation that makes sense of the discourse should be preferred. A meaning that makes the text absurd or meaningless should be avoided

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