Trust’s perceived correctness inheres in internal processing, not the world

Evidence

Thus the internal ordering of the processing experience comes to take the place of a foundation for the ‘correctness’ of complexity reduction located in the outside world. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 154

Categorization

• XREF: This is Luhmann’s closest anticipation of ‘faceless commitments’: the truster validates the system by internal ordering, not by checking the world — the mechanism that lets Stevens defer to Darlington’s appeasement.