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"text": "William Frankena has altered [Charlie Dunbar] Broad's distinction slightly to define teleology as making consequences the \"one and only … ultimate right-making characteristic\" and to define deontology as allowing \"that there are other considerations that may make an action or rule right or obligatory besides the goodness or badness of its consequences …\"[…].",
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