Trust presupposes grounded expectations, not the absence of them

Evidence

The scant-expectations view is implausible, however, even as an ordinary-language notion. … If it is trust only when I have little reason to expect you to fulfill my expectation and not when I have substantial reason to expect you to do so, then I did not ever trust my mother, do not trust my son, close friends, or any of the other people I am most likely to say—in ordinary language—I trust with respect to various things. It seems extremely unlikely that anyone really means by trust what the scantexpectations view entails. On that view, I can trust a complete stranger but not my mother. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 363

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the scant-expectations view of trust from a grounded-expectations view, clarifying what trust is and is not by ordinary-language test.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s integration: grounded expectations are the observable constraints Hardin relies on, and losing those is exactly what blindness destroys in Saramago.