External trust depends on learning and system cover, not internal structural reasons.

Evidence

Trust is related to absence in time and in space. There would be no need to trust anyone whose activities were continually visible and whose thought processes were transparent, or to trust any system whose workings were wholly known and understood. It has been said that trust is “a device for coping with the freedom of others,”30but the prime condition of requirements for trust is not lack of power but lack of full information. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 84 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: System trust rests on expectations that most won’t test the system; Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment; Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions (+2 more)

Related

• Trust substitutes knowledge of system structure for unavailable information about others. (similarity 0.93)
• Trust arises not from powerlessness but from lack of full information about others. (similarity 0.90)
• Trust is willed action taken despite an information deficit. (similarity 0.88)
• Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions (similarity 0.88)
• System trust rests on expectations that most won’t test the system (similarity 0.87)
• Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment (similarity 0.87)
• Some systems must invest trust externally, while programmed roles reduce internal trust needs. (similarity 0.87)
• Trusting always exceeds available evidence; reasons for trust are retrospective self-justification (similarity 0.86)
• Trust involves a calculable asymmetry of possible harm, while hope does not (similarity 0.86)
• External trust becomes necessary for systems that must partner with outsiders. (similarity 0.86)
• System trust stays latent and beyond open discussion (similarity 0.84)
• Trust reduces social complexity by replacing missing information with guaranteed security (similarity 0.84)
• System trust rests on trusting that others also trust (similarity 0.84)
• Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity (similarity 0.84)
• Trust reduces complexity through internal structures, not only external conditions (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions #complicates (0.70)
• Trust arises not from powerlessness but from lack of full information about others. #expands (0.40) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 84