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AFTER CERTAINTY

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A Question of Trust

O'Neill, Onora. A Question of Trust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Why this matters here

Onora O'Neill's A Question of Trust argues that institutional trust depends on whether professions and organizations remain answerable to those who rely on them, not on ever-thicker displays of assurance alone. How Trust Forms cites that answerability as part of what makes licenses, labels, and procedures worth extending: abstraction remains reasonable when people can expect correction when trust is abused.