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Notice that the skeptic’s questions don’t just show that you can’t absolutely prove the reliability of your sources for beliefs about the past, present, and future. The point is much deeper. You can’t even provide one single, pure piece of evidence for this assumption you share with everyone else, and on which the credibility of all your other particular beliefs depends: The sources of our beliefs are sometimes reliable.

And this fact is certainly surprising and perplexing, if not deeply troubling. Where is your anchor to reality? What ties your belief-forming mechanisms to the way things really are? The skeptic has questions. And there seem to be no good answers. But, of course, as is often the case in philosophy and life, it gets worse before it gets better. Or, it becomes at least crazier and more interesting. To find out, look at the next section, which covers a whole different type of skeptical questioning, as we go from the frying pan into the fire.