Can you trust something you do not understand?

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Answer 1

Hmmm...tricky, aren't you? It is a difficult question all of us battle more than ones in our lifetime to find a particular answer.

Understanding has a degree of uncertainty; it is not knowledge, while trust is based onto believing into an uncertain but a favorable outcome. Mathematically the intersection between trust and understanding is not null, therefore the answer is logically True or 'Yes')
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What is trust? A ‘believe’, an act of ‘faith’? If something we don’t understand something this something has a high degree of uncertainty and therefore rationally or logically speaking definitely should not trusted. However there is another facet or a set of facets of the human rational and psyche. They are perhaps different in source and nature however come together when it comes to 'trusting' something that one can’t understand. Some of them are Hope, Faith, Spirituality, , and even a Thrill-to-Gamble against improbable odds. Even in making a step or planning a vacation we have an indispensable need to trust in something we do not understand.

So finally;
We can’t completely trust something we don’t understand, but sometimes we have no choice.

Answer 2

Cannot answer that until I try to trust something I do not understand. Furthermore, if I never try to trust something, wonder if perhaps my expectations are to high? I trusted my friend's father when he said ride the bike without training wheels. I didn't think possible, but he was correct. However, I trusted others when in retrospect I shouldn't have. Seeking knowledge to the "something" certainly helps, but I am only half way there to the experience. May I be able to apply the knowledge gained? Ahhhhh blessed wisdom, unification of fact and experience. Certainly that is something I can trust.

Answer 3

Do you understand electricity?? How about the sea? How about the ice flows in Antartica? Faith is the word. If someone goes to Australia and brings back photos I have faith in the fact they were there. Hope is a plea that when the electricity goes out, the sea vanishes, Australia disappears, that God is in His Heaven.

Answer 4

Then reason it out,try and understand what it is all about,know and be sure,,use your eyes ,your brain,your hands,use whatever u may think might help you to understand it..research...then decide whether it can be trusted or not....but you are right...when u do not know something..you can not trust..but not understanding it?? would that mean you are giving up?..cause everything has a reason..do u hvae to see it to believe it? you can even feel it to believe it...when u know YOU CAN!!

Answer 5

Do you understand exactly how the food you ingest is converted into human flesh and blood and conciousness? I doubt you do. So yes, of course you can trust something without understanding it. If you can't, then you don't trust yourself, I guess.

Answer 6

Great question!
Hmmm...let me flip it. If I was a criminal, I guess I'd know
a "good person" to be "trustworthy" even though I wouldn't
understand him/ her. I'd probably try to take advantage
of such people and that quality.
So yes.
Faith is deeper than that. I might understand a little but I'll
always need to learn more. Trust is Absolute here.

Answer 7

check the reputation of the thing to be trusted and find out why you do not understand. Many things in life have no understanding

Answer 8

It really depends on what it is. I trust God even though I do not understand everything in His business. I rely on His understanding a lot. I understand enough that I have made my choice to follow Jesus. : )

Answer 9

Yes. People do it every day when they ride in airplanes, or when they have surgery, or when they're told to hide in the root cellar because a tornado's coming.

Answer 10

yes. A child will trust their parent to keep them safe, does the child understand the parents? no