# kaal:claim:3266953-014

**Claim.** Smart contracts cannot by themselves carry human business interactions, because those interactions require flexibility in interpreting intent that is at odds with the merciless mathematical logic of smart contract code.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- business collaborations with unanticipated eventualities or partial performance

**Source quote.**

> Human business interactions require a flexibility that is at odds with the merciless mathematical logic of smart contracts.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Motivation, page 10

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Failure mode.** rigidity of smart contract logic  (family: smart-contract-rigidity)

**Topics.** smart-contracts

**Keywords.** smart-contracts, contract-flexibility, code-is-law, business-interaction

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