Is Trust Independent Of Knowledge?

Question:Yes, although people tend to call trust not based on knowledge faith, as in I have faith in God but I do not know anything about God.

We have a whole hierarchy of rules of evidence based on trust between what we know for certain and what we believe for probable or possible.

On money there are words like "Full faith and credit" as opposed to species these days. We can't back a dollar with gold or silver anymore but back it with trust not knowing what that trust is worth. That is why the dollar now fluctuates in value and a silver certificate wourth two dollars when it was issued is now worth 250 dollars at a numismatist's shop.

And in relationships, trust is the faith you have in the ones you care for either based on the knowledge you have of that person or the caring you have for that person. There comes a time when what you know is not even for certain also, but; what you trust is that you care enough to believe in this person regardless of any doubts to the contrary.

So call it trust, call it faith, call it luck. It all functions the same. It keeps you committed to someone of some thing for as long as that trust, or faith, or luck lasts.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Yes, although people tend to call trust not based on knowledge faith, as in I have faith in God but I do not know anything about God.

We have a whole hierarchy of rules of evidence based on trust between what we know for certain and what we believe for probable or possible.

On money there are words like "Full faith and credit" as opposed to species these days. We can't back a dollar with gold or silver anymore but back it with trust not knowing what that trust is worth. That is why the dollar now fluctuates in value and a silver certificate wourth two dollars when it was issued is now worth 250 dollars at a numismatist's shop.

And in relationships, trust is the faith you have in the ones you care for either based on the knowledge you have of that person or the caring you have for that person. There comes a time when what you know is not even for certain also, but; what you trust is that you care enough to believe in this person regardless of any doubts to the contrary.

So call it trust, call it faith, call it luck. It all functions the same. It keeps you committed to someone of some thing for as long as that trust, or faith, or luck lasts.

totally meaningless question

Yes, I think it is an emotion- however the heart feels toward a
particular person,or experience.

Noup! The knowledge is requiered to trust or not to trust

No, I don't think so. You have to have some prior knowledge to know that it's trustworthy to begin with.

It is not the same thing as knowledge. And I think it is exercised with out knowledge of facts. When we trust in our instinctual drives such as self defense, there is not a review of facts of knowledge going on in our minds before we act. We are able to follow through with an instinctual override of our normal conscious control because we have faith (trust) in our instincts.Sometimes we exercise blind trust in others because the weight of the consequence of trust being violated is trivial. Sometimes we trust that the knowledge we have is correct (even though as is sometimes the case it is not). So, it is not the same thing, usually they work together, and sometimes it is trust in instinct (as in when your instincts tell you that a particular individual can't be trusted. You might say that when a newborn infant begins nursing its mother's breast that it is because it is doing so because it is trusting its own instinct to nurse, however at that point it does not yet have the experience of its trust being violated so it simply does not know yet how to not trust. Consequently, you could say that it is not exercising trust, but instead the option of not trusting simply does not exist yet.

So, I guess you could say that, yes, trust does exist independently from knowledge (in the beginning at least) and that we keep on trusting until experience (and hence knowledge) leads us to not trusting (automatically, anyway).

No. Trust is based on knowledge, but knowledge is not synonymous with fact!

...trust knows knowledge, but knowledge doesn't often know trust

I must say yes, because Knowledge cannot be always trusted.