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The questions of source skepticism showed that you can’t come up with any good evidence that your most basic belief-forming mechanisms are ever reliable. The questions of radical skepticism then poured salt on the wound, pointing out that you can’t find any single shred of evidence at all to refute or even dislodge an array of crazy-sounding radical hypotheses that are logically incompatible with your current beliefs about vitally important things.

The skeptic’s challenges show that you can’t prove some of the most basic and important, and otherwise uncontroversial, things you believe. You can’t even marshal any good evidence that they are true. You just believe them. And the skeptic keeps asking why. One thing that skepticism shows is that there is very little room in life for cocky, arrogant dogmatism. You need to be a little humble in your certainties. But the skeptics can help you see even more than that.