Functional accounts explain how trust persists, not how it begins

Evidence

It would be sloppy reasoning to suppose that this functional account necessitates or automatically leads to trust in a complex world. It is only an account of the maintenance of trust in such a world. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 675

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that a functional/maintenance account of trust is not an genesis account — a crucial distinction for the reader’s Luhmann integration.
• XREF: Mirrors the familiar maintenance-vs-origin distinction in evolutionary biology (exaptation vs. selection) and economic institutions literature.