Fundamentally, trust is a device for coping with the freedom of other persons (Luhmann 1979; and this volume). It is because of the phenomenological plausibility of this conception of trust that it plays such a prominent role in shaping collective life.

DEFINE: Trust is defined as a coping mechanism for the irreducible freedom of other people, not merely a risk calculation.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1146