Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word: The philosopher cited a rare aporia in the text.
The engineer measured the bridge's aporia in millimeters.
A homonym is a word that shares the same spelling and pronunciation as another word but carries an entirely different meaning. In the given sentence, "aporia" is used in its philosophical/rhetorical sense: a state of puzzlement, doubt, or an irresolvable internal contradiction in a text or argument.
We must find the sentence where "aporia" is used with a completely different meaning rather than the same philosophical one. In the sentences about the Platonic dialogue, the poetic device and the contradiction in logic, "aporia" keeps its usual sense of a logical doubt, contradiction or rhetorical device — these are the same word, not a homonym.
In "The engineer measured the bridge's aporia in millimeters," the word is used as a physical, measurable quantity of a structure — a meaning unrelated to the philosophical sense. This is the sentence that treats "aporia" as a different word with a distinct meaning. Hence, the answer is "The engineer measured the bridge's aporia in millimeters."
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