Trust is always a three-part relation of truster, trustee, and particular action

Evidence

Note, incidentally, that the one-way trust game of game 1 is a three-part relation. The lieutenant colonel trusts Trifonov with respect to about 4,500 rubles. This is true for the general trust game no matter who the parties are or what the stakes are. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 118

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

• DEFINE: Hardin’s central definitional move: trust is never global but always specific to a trustee and a defined act — directly relevant to how the doctor’s wife’s trust relations are also task-specific.
• XREF: This scope-restricted trust (individual + particular action) aligns with the reader’s integration of Hardin with Luhmann: familiarity is likewise about specific, bounded expectations, not blanket trust.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 118; Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 91