The attitude of expecting good performance from another party, whether in
terms of loyalty, goodwill, truth, or promises. The importance of trust as a
kind of invisible glue that binds society together is most visible when it is
lost.Trust involves an element of risk, and epistemologists
can have trouble categorizing it as rational, since it works best in advance,
for example to motivate performance on occasions when defection may be to the
advantage of the person trusted. Trustworthiness is a virtue, subsuming
varieties such as truthfulness and fidelity.
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