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    It is not the case that Distrust is not merely the negation of trust.

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    • 1.On a Humean dispositional account, mental states are individuated solely by their functional roles in producing behavior, not by their propositional content.
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    • 2.Distrust produces the functional complement of trust-behaviors (withdrawal, vigilance, non-reliance) without requiring any additional positive belief beyond the absence of trust.
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    • 3.Therefore, distrust is fully constituted by the negation of the disposition to rely, making the positive-belief requirement in Argument 1 an inflation of the account.
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    • 1.Baier's own account of trust as 'reliance on another's goodwill' entails that its negation—non-reliance due to expected ill-will—exhausts what distrust adds over mere non-trust.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates the causal explanation of why one distrusts with the constitutive content of distrust itself, committing a genetic fallacy.
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    • 3.If the positive belief about non-follow-through is merely evidence triggering distrust rather than part of its structure, Argument 1 fails to show distrust is not the negation of trust.
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    • 1.Distrust requires believing that a person is committed to acting in a certain way but will not follow through on that commitment.
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    • 2.If distrust were simply the negation of trust, no additional positive belief about the person's failure to follow through would be required.
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