No Trust is Hybrid: Reply to Faulkner

Abstract There is a well-developed literature on trust. In his important article Faulkner ( Analysis, 75 (3), 424−429, 2015) distinguishes three-place, two-place and one-place trust predicates. He then argues that our more basic notions of are expressed by the Three-place trust, contractual not fundamental. This matters. Having clear understanding concepts important. The most assumption Faulkner’s argument notion three-place predicate attitudinal ; it ‘metaphysical hybrid attitude action’. I argue this wrong. All three no reason exists to deny derive from one. Once one rejects can be separated off others as metaphysical for priority collapses.