A non-moral explanation that preserves all predictive content of a moral explanation while stripping normative content fails Lipton's loveliness criterion, since it explains less about why agents are motivated.
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Predictive content(as what would be lost if mathematics were removed from science)
The ability of a theory to accurately tell us what will happen in the future or in new situations we haven't observed yet.
moral explanation(Contrasted with a view on which moral explanation merely evaluates the binding force of obligations whose content is already given.)
An account that explains how moral obligations come to obtain and what their content is, as opposed to an assessment of the moral force of obligations whose content is presupposed.