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TJump (YouTube)

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https://www.youtube.com/@TJump

Overview

Tom Jump's channel is almost entirely debates and long discussions: with Christian and Muslim apologists, presuppositionalists, Catholic philosophers, idealists, and the occasional atheist he thinks is reasoning badly. His method is to refuse to proceed until every term has been defined and every claim has been given a truth condition, and then to hold the other side to those definitions for the next two hours. He also posts solo videos setting out his own positions on epistemology, a naturalist account of morality, and what he takes to be the only valid method for distinguishing true claims from false ones.

Notes

On my based list. The definitional grind is tiresome to watch and devastating in effect, because most apologetic arguments survive only as long as their key terms stay vague, and Jump will not let them. He is the best available demonstration of why Burden of proof matters and of how presuppositionalism, dealt with under the Transcendental Argument, collapses when asked what it would mean for its claims to be false. Not where I would start a believer, but where I would send someone who thinks a particular argument is airtight.

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