Jamal Awil

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Instrumental mastery and trust address different kinds of futures. [definitional]

This effect is not to be confused with instrumental mastery over events. Where such mastery can be assured (i.e. 'actualized'), trust is not necessary. But trust is required for the reduction of a future characterized by more or less indeterminate complexity.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 128