Trust is a three-part relation of agent, trusted, and act
Evidence
A characteristic of trusting relationships, one that is not uniquely relevant to the encapsulated-interest view, is that trust is generally a three-part relation: A trusts B to do X (Baier 1986; Luhmann 1980, 27). — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 91
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines trust’s relational structure (A trusts B to do X) — the specific locus where blindness collapses the X-component.
- XREF: Cites Luhmann directly, giving the reader a hard textual node connecting Saramago’s novel to his chosen theorist.
Related
- Trust is a three-part relation of A trusting B to do X (similarity 0.91)
- Trust is a three-part cognitive relation grounded in truth, not choice (similarity 0.90)
- Trust is a three-part relation assessing another’s intentions about some action (similarity 0.90)
- Trust is a three-part relation, not an ungrounded attitude of faith (similarity 0.90)
- Trust is normally three-part, open-ended only in very close relationships. (similarity 0.88)
- Trust is always a three-part relation of truster, trustee, and particular action (similarity 0.87)
- Noncognitive accounts of trust reduce it to a one-part relation without expectations (similarity 0.86)
- Trust is a matter of knowledge and belief, not of choice or action. (similarity 0.85)
- Trust is a cognitive state of belief, not an action or purpose (similarity 0.85)
- Trust is a kind of knowledge grounded in trustworthy evidence (similarity 0.84)
- Trust is rational expectation about the trusted party’s self-interest (similarity 0.84)
- Defining trust requires grounding it in mutual dependency relations (similarity 0.84)
- Three of four trust theories require cognitive assessment of the trusted (similarity 0.84)
- Trust is a degree of expected probability, not a separate decision layered onto risk. (similarity 0.84)
- Trust requires knowing the other’s incentives to honor it (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Trust is a three-part relation that daily language often collapses into two parts
#expands(0.95) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 292