{
  "id": "trust.reliance",
  "term": "trust",
  "sense": "reliance",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "interaction",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "act.deed",
      "instead.alternative",
      "system.organized",
      "range.spatial",
      "across.spatial",
      "hold.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components together enable reliance by allowing one system to act on a representation of another within a bounded range of conditions, choosing the model over verification.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded reliance",
      "action without verification",
      "model-based affordance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Opportunity executed commands based on Earth-time schedules despite a 20-minute signal delay, trusting its preloaded navigation model.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Iceland's banking system collapsed when trust in interbank lending models failed beyond their operational range.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pilots rely on autopilot systems during cruise flight, acting on sensor-fused models instead of direct visual verification.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "benefit-of-the-doubt.trust",
    "blind-spot.model",
    "gut-feeling.trust",
    "red-flag.warning",
    "sanity-check.trust",
    "too-good-to-be-true.trust"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "trust"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Dropped no components; added 'across.spatial' and 'hold.physical' as constitutive for the spatial extent and persistence of validity implied by 'across the range where the model holds'. All components"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance"
}