 Fortunately, though, the principle-based approach can actually be understood in a way that is compatible with particularism after all, and this is how we propose to understand the distinction (this goes beyond the existing literature, but does so in the spirit of a ‘friendly amendment’ to Nagel’s account). The key move is to not build Nagel’s conception of universality into the articulation of the distinction. So one might allow that a given consideration (or state of affairs, or feature of a situation; insert your favored ontology of reasons here) is a reason in one case but that very same consideration might be no reason at all (or even a reason with the opposite valence) in another situation due to some difference between the two situations. At least, drawing of the distinction should not rule this out. In this way, the distinction is compatible with the particularist’s favored holistic conception of reasons.