"trust" as "what truth feels like in first person"
Trust as what truth feels like in first person
8 tweets · August 2023 · 42 likes · 3 retweets · read on Twitter
"truth" and "trust" both have this unquestioned quality: for true things, you don't say "I believe that X" or "I think X" you just say "X".
"truth in first person" makes no is-ought distinction ie "what matters [to me]" is part of truth so something that threatens me or what matters to me is untrue in the way that a partner cheating on me is untrue (this was the original sense of the word!)
likewise, C Thi Nguyen points out that our sense of trust absolutely extends to objects doing their job, not just to people/agents we trust a rope to hold us we trust our key to open its lock we trust the wifi to work, unless "my wifi sucks"
this gif is made of the sensation of betrayal before the knife comes down, there IS an object that is not a cake. that's entirely unquestioned. you wouldn't say "that object, which looks like a shoe". it just IS A SHOE …until it isn't (ht @aphercotropist)
as for the implications of "trust"="what truth feels like in first person" for first person *plural* ("we")...
...those I will leave, for now, as an exercise for the reader (I'd love to hear your takes on it, as QTs or replies)
I'm playing with thinking in terms of being before trust. I think trust is more a secondary thing, something that comes after in the process of questioning some statement. Before it's doubted, we don't say "I trust that X" or "X is trustworthy". Just "X"