Under these circumstances one may anticipate a need for functionally equivalent problem-solving mechanisms which partly replace feeling as a basis for trust and partly restrict it to increasingly private functionings. Such an alternative, assurance in social self-presentation, seems to gain in importance in the process of the development of civilization.

DEFINE: Introduces 'assurance in social self-presentation' as a mechanism distinct from feeling-based trust.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 291