 Most particularists also accept the second thesis. In some cases, particularists accept the second thesis because they accept the first (Dancy 2005, McDowell 1979). In other cases, particularists reject the first thesis but accept the second: they admit that there are some true moral principles, but hold that those principles are nevertheless not the sorts of things that should play a role in deliberation (Guarini 2006). However, all particularists who accept the second thesis tend to adopt a similar moral epistemology—let’s call the second thesis “abstinence”.