Trust requires both security of expectation and willingness to suspend distrust

Evidence

Trust - fede pubblica — depends, of course, upon security of expectation. But a trusting society must also be one in which men are prepared to surrender their instinctive habits of distrust, where they are prepared to ‘have faith’ in their neighbour’s word. … A merchant whom no one trusts will not be able to remain in business for very long. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1742

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely defines trust as the pairing of secured expectation with a deliberate surrender of instinctive distrust — both required.
• XREF: Directly extends Luhmann’s ‘familiarity’ as trust’s baseline: Saramago’s blindness removes the observability securing expectation.
• SEED: Angle: the two-component model of trust (expectation security + distrust-suspension) as a diagnostic for which societies can cohere — applied to Saramago’s colony.