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Full Idea
With respect to resolvable dilemmas, the deontologist's strategy is to argue that the 'conflict' between the two rules which has generated the dilemma is merely apparent.
Clarification
Deontologists hold that moral consists of following rules
Gist of Idea
Deontologists resolve moral dilemmas by saying the rule conflict is merely apparent
Source
Rosalind Hursthouse (On Virtue Ethics [1999], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Hursthouse,Rosalind: 'On Virtue Ethics' [OUP 2001], p.52
A Reaction
This assumes that the rules can't conflict (because they come for God, or pure reason), but we might say that there are correct rules which do conflict. Morality isn't physics, or tennis.
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