Trustworthiness assessment depends on knowledge of both past and future

Evidence

The encapsulated-interest account of trust is inherently subjective in that what it is sensible for a given individual to expect depends heavily on what that individual knows about both the past and the future of the person or other party to be trusted. Obviously, assessments of the future matter for an expectations analysis. But why the past? Partly for reputational reasons, but also because the past reveals the other’s capacity to trust and be trustworthy. To a great extent, this is merely the capacity to judge the likely risks and benefits of entering trust relationships. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 599

Categorization

• XREF: The past ‘reveals the other’s capacity to trust’ — the doctor’s wife’s observational access gives her this retrospective knowledge while collective blindness destroys it. Luhmann’s familiarity draws on exactly this retrospective knowing.
• DEFINE: Clarifies why encapsulated-interest is subjective: the epistemic position of the truster determines what it is sensible to expect.