The printing press replaced cosmological symbolization with questions of confidence and trust

Evidence

I wish to propose a continuum of words connoting belief based on the degree to which they rest on evidence of the senses. Faith requires no evidence; trust is an expectation based on inconclusive evidence, is tolerant of uncertainty or risk; confidence is a strong conviction based on substantial evidence or logical deduction. These are all subjective attitudes. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2409 (#expands, via linked claim)

So it is not to be expected that scientific and technological development of civilization will bring events under control, substituting mastery over things for trust as a social mechanism and thus making it unnecessary. Instead, one should expect trust to be increasingly in demand as a means of enduring the complexity of the future which technology will generate. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 130 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trust sits between faith and confidence on an evidence-affect continuum — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2409; Technology increases rather than eliminates the need for trust — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 130; The shift from ‘true’ to ‘truest’ marks territorialized, comparative faith — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 69 (+1 more)

Related

• Trust sits between faith and confidence on an evidence-affect continuum (similarity 0.86)
• Trust, faith, and confidence differ in required sensory evidence (similarity 0.86)
• Trust sits between faith and confidence, where evidence is balanced by affectivity. (similarity 0.84)
• Faith historically replaced belief as strongest trust word (similarity 0.84)
• Trust structures may later givver way to simple confidence (similarity 0.82)
• Trust is defined by the reason for expectation, not the expectation itself (similarity 0.81)
• Confidence and trust are not substitutable but mutually reinforcing social attitudes (similarity 0.81)
• Confidence is a self-fulfilling virtuous spiral unlike superstitious hope (similarity 0.81)
• Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.81)
• Missing confidence saps diffuse sentiment while missing trust blocks decisive action. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust is not the master distinction characterizing modern society. (similarity 0.81)
• Lack of confidence causes anomie while lack of trust alters decision-making (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is confidence expressing faith in others’ probity or in abstract principles. (similarity 0.80)
• Science substitutes intersubjective certainty for the older evidence of familiarity (similarity 0.80)
• Trust requires belief in the other’s motivations, not mere behavioral expectation (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Trust sits between faith and confidence on an evidence-affect continuum #expands (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2409
• Technology increases rather than eliminates the need for trust #exemplifies (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 130