Basic trust in the naturalness of the world is involuntary and pre-intentional

Evidence

This point of departure can be regarded as a datum, an incontrovertibly true statement. We put our trust in the self-evident matter-of-fact ‘nature’ of the world and of human nature1 every day. At this most basic level, confidence is a natural feature of the world, part and parcel of the horizon of our daily lives, but it is not an intentional (and hence variable) component of experience. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 93

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes basic, involuntary confidence-as-horizon from intentional, variable trust — a key distinction for the reader’s argument since Stevens’s deference is the deliberate variant layered on this involuntary base.
• XREF: The involuntary/pre-intentional distinction parallels Giddens’s ontological security and Ishiguro’s unexamined professional faith; Stevens never questions the naturalness of his role.