Do you think any new school of thought or theory should add empirical analytical knowledge?

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How should scholars react to theories which offer no new analytical or empirical knowledge ? are these theories necessary meaningless and useless?

Cameen Kettanun

I'd say that schools of thought and theories should not be judged only by their additional epistemological contributions. New schools of thought and theories can be proposed as replication that helps to verify or confirm the existing knowledge. They do "add" and "offer" strength and validity to their predecessors. And from the critical standpoint, they help to reproduce such knowledge and solidify power. They are not meaningless or useless, are they?

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