To me, the phrase “I decided to trust her” throws an error. It’s the “decided” part that’s the problem: beliefs are not supposed to involve any “deciding”. There’s priors, there’s evidence, and if it feels like there’s a degree of freedom in what to do with those, then something has probably gone wrong.
Trust isn’t about having a particular belief, it’s about acting on a particular type of hypothesis despite lack of convincing evidence supporting it.
“I decided to trust her” does not mean that you believe that she absolutely won’t do some bad X, but that you decided to act as if she won’t. That is, you were prepared to take the risk.
Likewise to “trust me” doesn’t mean believing that I will never do a bad thing, but to take the risk despite the lack of sufficient evidence.
Perhaps more specifically, evidence that is independent from the person that is to be trusted or not. Presumably when trusting someone else that something is true, often one does so due to believing that the other person is being honest and reliable enough such that that their word is sufficient evidence to then take some action. It’s just that there isn’t sufficient evidence without that person’s word.
Trust isn’t about having a particular belief, it’s about acting on a particular type of hypothesis despite lack of convincing evidence supporting it.
“I decided to trust her” does not mean that you believe that she absolutely won’t do some bad X, but that you decided to act as if she won’t. That is, you were prepared to take the risk.
Likewise to “trust me” doesn’t mean believing that I will never do a bad thing, but to take the risk despite the lack of sufficient evidence.
> lack of sufficient evidence.
Perhaps more specifically, evidence that is independent from the person that is to be trusted or not. Presumably when trusting someone else that something is true, often one does so due to believing that the other person is being honest and reliable enough such that that their word is sufficient evidence to then take some action. It’s just that there isn’t sufficient evidence without that person’s word.