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Consider math, it doesn’t make any empirical predictions on its own, as it is just a set of abstract symbols and rules. Do you consider mathematical facts to be a form of knowledge?
Arguably "it's impossible to violate energy conservation given time-invariant action" is an empirical prediction, and that's a specific case of Noether's theorem.