This Element explores the nature and formulation of skepticism about the external world by considering a crucial anti-skeptical strategy. The strategy is to posit a metaphysical view of external objects nullifying standard skeptical scenarios. This fails because it raises an equally troubling skepticism about what such objects are. But this failure reveals much about the nature of the problem and how to solve it. One upshot is that knowing what there is does not necessarily imply knowing much about the world. Standard formulations of skepticism concern the existence of external objects, but this assumes a disputable metaphysical view of objects. The core problem concerns, not whether there are causes of our experiences, or what to call them, but what those causes are. The solution is to show that we can know what, exactly, lies beyond our experiences.

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