The condition of ignorance or uncertainty about other people's behaviour is central to the notion of trust. It is related to the limits of our capacity ever to achieve a full knowledge of others, their motives, their responses to endogenous as well as exogenous changes. Trust is a tentative and intrinsically fragile response to our ignorance, a way of coping with 'the limits of our foresight' (Shklar 1984: 151), hardly ever located at the top end of the probability distribution. If we were blessed with an unlimited computational ability to map out all possible contingencies in enforceable contracts, trust would not be a problem

XREF: Connects to trust literature and the distinction between trust and enforceable contracts — relevant to institutional economics and game theory.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 2719