ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to initiate transversal reasoning (TR) between Sacks’ understanding of emunah (a type of trust) and Nooteboom’s understanding of trust. This TR is part of the larger TR presented in consecutive chapters. First, it is argued that Nooteboom, Bowles, Ariely and Kay & King largely meet the requirements for entering into TR with Sacks in these chapters. The reason for employing TR is to explore its relevance for a social response to radical uncertainty in the context of climate change. The relevance of TR between Sacks and Nooteboom on emunah appears in their treatment of what can be described as relational knowledge, a third form of knowledge, besides objective and subjective knowledge. Relational knowledge allows to embrace radical uncertainty in the context of climate change. In discourses on climate change, elements of this kind of knowledge can already be found in pleas for post-normal science.
