Functional benefit alone does not cause trust to arise.

Evidence

What does this tell us? It does not say that because trust is functional it will happen. Rather, it says that if the causal chain producing trust ever gets under way, it will tend to be sustained by the feedback mechanism of the explanation. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 673

Categorization

• QUESTION: Hardin cuts off mid-sentence here; the full point about nonteleological functional explanation deserves chasing down in the next chapter.