The best explanation principle demands we prefer the hypothesis with fewest unexplained posits, and natural selection eliminates the need to posit inherent moral value as an explanatory entity.

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Best explanation principle(as used in epistemology (the study of how we know things)): A rule for deciding between competing ideas: choose the one that explains the most while assuming the fewest extra things that don't need explaining.
Explanatory entity(as used in logic and philosophy of science): A thing you claim exists in order to explain why something happens or is the way it is.
Inherent moral value(as used in ethics (the study of right and wrong)): The idea that something (like human beings or nature) has worth or importance built into it by nature itself, rather than something we just decide to value.
hypothesis(Phase three of Dewey's pattern of inquiry): A construction that imaginatively utilizes both theoretical ideas and perceptual facts to forecast the possible consequences of various operations

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