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    Challenges→Distrust is not merely the negation of trust.

    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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    Evidence(Distinguished from prior/intrinsic probability in the context of the low priors argument)
    Factors extrinsic to a hypothesis that raise or lower its probability
    argument (philosophical)(as used in logic)
    A set of statements where some statements (called premises) are offered as reasons to support another statement (called a conclusion).
    distrust(Philosophy of trust and distrust)
    A stance toward a person that is distinct from both the negation of trust and mere nonreliance; it requires believing that the person is committed to acting in a certain way but will not follow through on that commitment.
    negation(Standard truth conditions for logical negation, used as the basis for arguments against dialetheism)
    ¬A is true if and only if A is not true
    structure (philosophical)

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    (as used in metaphysics and logic)
    The fundamental parts or elements that make something what it is; its basic composition or nature.
    trust(Swinburne's formulation (2005, 143))
    Acting on the assumption that another agent will do for you what she knows you want or need, when the evidence gives some reason for supposing she may not, and where there will be bad consequences if the assumption is false.

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