Not trusting someone usually means actively distrusting, yet ignorance yields neither state

Evidence

In general, it is important to note that one may neither trust nor distrust another or a government with respect to some issue. As noted in chapter 4, this is contrary to the vernacular sense of not trusting. A person who says, “I do not trust him,” very likely means that he or she actively distrusts him. However, we are often ignorant of another’s intentions or likely behavior, and therefore we are in a state of neither trust nor distrust toward that other. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1000

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts the vernacular sense of ‘not trusting’ with the analytic distinction Hardin draws; connects to Luhmann’s familiarity baseline this reader is integrating.