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    Deliberately leveraging another person's esteem-seeking b... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Consciously using people's need for esteem as a reason for trusting them is incompatible with actually trusting them.

    Deliberately leveraging another person's esteem-seeking behavior to get what one wants is a self-interested motive.

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    Such an epistemology is also open to criticisms, however. For example, it suggests that rational trust will always be partial rather than complete, given that the rational trustor is open to evidence that contradicts their trust on this theory, while someone who trusts completely in someone else lacks such openness. The theory also implies that the reasons for trusting well (i.e., in a justified way) are accessible to the trustor, at some point or another, which may simply be false. Some reasons

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