Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

philosophy is not a discipline where you are actually demonstrating what is true, thats science

There is no empirical repeatable test to show that only science demonstrates what's true.

Therefore, when you type the above sentence you are doing philosophy, whether you like it or not.

But that's not quite what Deesse said.  Science does indeed demonstrate what's true, while philosophy does not.  Deesse didn't say that only science can make this demonstration, so your response is something of a strawman.

For what it's worth, I'm happy to reject the statement 'only scientific statements are true' as scientism, a self-defeating proposition. But I think Deesse's point was that science shows us what is demonstrably true, which philosophy points us towards what may be true.

That said, it's interesting to reflect that in several millennia of trying, philosophy has not solved one single problem of human existence (other than giving professional philosophers an income), whereas science has given us things like flush toilets and vaccines.

Boru