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A fragment of the Garden of Remembering
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Our caselaw recognizes two different interpretive tools concerning absurdity. The first, the absurd consequences canon, merely resolves an ambiguity by choosing the reading that avoids absurd results. The second, the absurdity doctrine, reforms unambiguous statutory language where the language would lead to an absurd result.