Reflexive trust can absorb more uncertainty with less risk

Evidence

The system substitutes inner certainty for external certainty9 and in so doing raises its tolerance of uncertainty in external relationships. The problem of the complexity gap thereby shifts to some extent into the secondary problem of inner certainty. Inner certainty can come about in two different, indeed opposite, ways – and it is largely because of this that the development of trust can be pretty reliably anticipated time and again, despite very diverse system conditions. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 154 (#expands, via linked claim)

Whoever trusts has to keep control over his own preparedness to accept the risks involved. He must make it clear to himself, if only to reassure himself, that he is not trusting unconditionally but rather within limits and in proportion to specific, rational expectations. It is himself he must curb and control when he puts his trust in someone or something. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 161 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jointly negotiating trust is more mature than passive emotional reliance; Seen-through trust reduces complexity less efficiently than spontaneous trust — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 256; Trust reduces complexity by substituting inner certainty for external certainty — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 154 (+14 more)

Related

• Trust reduces complexity by substituting inner certainty for external certainty (similarity 0.88)
• Familiarity prevents trust from becoming a conscious problem; doubt reopens it. (similarity 0.87)
• Trust reduces social complexity by replacing missing information with guaranteed security (similarity 0.87)
• Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment (similarity 0.87)
• Reflexive personal trust enables actions impossible by simple trust (similarity 0.87)
• Trusting always exceeds available evidence; reasons for trust are retrospective self-justification (similarity 0.87)
• Jointly negotiating trust is more mature than passive emotional reliance (similarity 0.86)
• Seen-through trust reduces complexity less efficiently than spontaneous trust (similarity 0.86)
• Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk (similarity 0.85)
• System trust rests on expectations that most won’t test the system (similarity 0.85)
• Trust reduces future complexity where instrumental mastery cannot (similarity 0.85)
• Trust functions by pruning the over-complex future to fit the present (similarity 0.85)
• Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions (similarity 0.84)
• Trust clues only reduce risk, never eliminate the leap of faith. (similarity 0.84)
• Trust involves a calculable asymmetry of possible harm, while hope does not (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Reflexive personal trust enables actions impossible by simple trust #expands (0.70)
• Trust reduces complexity by substituting inner certainty for external certainty #expands (0.60) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 154
• Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk #expands (0.55) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 161
• System trust is easier to acquire but harder to control than personal trust #qualifies (0.50)
• Trust reduces social complexity by replacing missing information with guaranteed security #qualifies (0.40)
• Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment #contradicts (0.40)