Belief and Reasons

Scanlon p.36:

"Even if it is true that in order to believe something one must take there to be a reason for thinking it true (so there can be no such thing as believing something simply becuase one would like it to be true)..."

Note: There can be no reason for believing in epistemic realism. Unless we're going to say that the true logic of a denial of epistemic nihilism doesn't resemble it's surface appearance in some strange way (a Wittgensteinian move or something), we're stuck with a regular old belief that we can't have reason to think is true. So if that's not belief, then we have no foundation for knowledge.