ABSTRACT
A reliabilist might acknowledge that trust is the vehicle. The attitude of trust is then characterized as that attitude towards reliance that explains why reliance is willing; and when trust is conceived affectively, as it is here, also explains the susceptibility to feelings of betrayal were the trusted party to prove unreliable. The response to this epistemological challenge is given by the idea that a belief in trustworthiness is itself a trusting belief, and so grounded on second-personal rather than third-personal considerations. The problem with this strategy, however, is that the fact that trust involves a belief in trustworthiness was meant to explain how it is that trust makes it epistemically reasonable to accept an ostensible offer of assurance, and so form a testimonial belief.
