Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Measure you use

The Learned World was one World, international and nondenominational, rising above the petty concerns of church and state.

Goldgar, A., (1995), İmpolite Learning (period 1680-1750)


What is trust? Trust is gained with minimum cost; but if broken – thence, no amount of money or effort can bring the level back to where it was.

Definitions of trust generally contain two components. The first is vulnerability: an act of trust involves putting oneself in a vulnerable position in the hope of gaining a positive benefit as a result. The second is expectation: the potential truster bases his decision on an expectation about whether the potential trustee will exploit his vulnerability, given that the trustee faces a ‘raw’, as Bacharach and Gambetta (1999) would call it, incentive to do so. Thus, Gambetta (1988) describes trust as ‘a threshold point, located on a probabilistic distribution’ (pg. 218).
http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/pdfs/2001-12text.pdf


Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

LUKE 6:9, 37