Awareness
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ORIGINAL: crazyml quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness Trust is nothing more than the belief that a person's behaviour is predictable. Deifying it is nonsensical. I think this is a pretty poor definition of "trust". The concept "trust" is at its most useful when you cannot predict another person's behaviour, but you believe that that behaviour will meet certain criteria. A) How is that useful? B) How is that not a belief in the predictability of someone's behaviour? I think you're engaging in vague hand-waving here to avoid a definition that's more stark than you'd like. The very definition of trust uses words such as "reliability" and "confidence". Pretending it's something mystical seems somewhat counterproductive. quote:
Yes, you can loosely apply "trust" to predictability - for example some posters on this forum can be "trusted" to behave in a certain way, but I'd argue that that is a slightly contrived application of the term "trust". No, I don't think so. When someone says, "I trust you", what they're actually saying is, "I believe you are predictable in regards to my welfare and desires". This is merely the default assumption when people speak about "trust" between two parties, but the concept of trust equating to a belief in the predictability of someone's behaviour still applies, regardless of the specific usage.
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