 Perhaps we can try to answer this question by looking at what abstinence particularists—Dancy in particular—have to say about Kant. Dancy writes that particularists agree with Kant that moral judgments are synthetic a priori. According to Dancy, Kant inferred from this that moral judgments must also be necessary and universal (2007); but particularists reject this inference, and hold that moral judgments are synthetic a priori and yet are contingent and particular. Dancy writes,