Incorrect. Outside the domain of knowledge, not outside the meaningful and not unimportant. They only considered traditional metaphysics meaningless.
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Ayer criticized ethics: 'Thus if I say to someone, "You acted wrongly in stealing that money," I am not stating anything more than if I had simply said, "You stole that money.' This is described as "cognitively meaningless" but I agree now that "outside knowledge" is sufficiently similar.
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Emotivism does not state that ethics is unimportant, just outside of the domain of knowledge.Knowledge can tell you what to do to accomplish something or what will happen if somebody does it, which could illuminate consequences of ethical choices. But it doesn’t prescribe what you should want to do.
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