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The questions of source skepticism in the previous few sections direct your attention to the reliability of the most basic belief-forming mechanisms, or sources for your beliefs. It asks: How do you know that memory, testimony, sense experience, or any other possible sources of your beliefs are ever reliable guides to realities outside yourself? Radical skepticism proceeds differently. It suggests a radical hypothesis or scenario incompatible with a huge array of your typical beliefs, a hypothesis so opposed to what you ordinarily assume that, if it were true, an enormous number of beliefs that you now have would be false. The radical skeptic points out that continuing to hold your normal beliefs requires denying this radical hypothesis and believing its wild alternative scenario to be false. So you seem already committed to its being false. But then, the radical skeptic typically asks how you know or have any evidence to believe that it is false.