# Contract flexibility

`kaal:entity:contract-flexibility`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `contract-flexibility`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2018 to 2019.

**2018**

- [3266953-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-014) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > Human business interactions require a flexibility that is at odds with the merciless mathematical logic of smart contracts.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

**2019**

- [3406323-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Smart contracts fail to accommodate human business interaction because code does not follow the same logic on similar terms as natural human language, so the flexibility in interpreting intent that human dealings require cannot be ensured.
  > Human interaction requires flexibility in interpreting intent that cannot be ensured by smart contracting because smart contract code does not follow the same logic on similar terms as natural human language.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323
- [3411897-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Human business interactions require a flexibility that is at odds with the merciless mathematical logic of smart contracts, so smart contracting cannot ensure the flexible interpretation of intent that human interaction requires.
  > Human business interactions require a flexibility that is at odds with merciless mathematical logic of smart contracts.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

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