When you think about it, the gemara has a very robust structure for preserving the mesorah and keeping track of every change due to takanos, pointing out chisurei mechsera even when obvious, etc. Every single change from how it was received has to be rigorously accounted for. In that light, the gemara doesn’t actually have a hava amina, it’s recording where it corrected an obvious garbling of the Mesora. (Isn’t it mind boggling when you think of how few of those there are?)
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