# Partial performance

`kaal:entity:partial-performance`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `partial-performance`. 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, 2019 to 2019.

**2019**

- [3405401-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Human business interaction typically requires the possibility that each party may fulfill only a portion of an intended collaboration, a partial performance option that mathematically rigid smart contracts do not accommodate.
  > Human business interaction also typically requires the possibility that each party may fulfill only a portion of any intended collaboration.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401
- [3406323-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-033) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Smart contracts undermine the parties' ability to continue collaborating when unanticipated eventualities arise, because in most cases of unfulfilled parameters the contract will simply cancel out rather than allow partial performance.
  > Smart contracts also undermine counterparties' ability to continue collaboration when unanticipated eventualities arise. In most cases of unfulfilled parameters, the smart contract will simply cancel out.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323
- [3411897-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-033) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Smart contracts undermine counterparties' ability to continue collaborating when unanticipated eventualities arise, because in most cases of unfulfilled parameters the smart contract will simply cancel out rather than allow partial performance.
  > Smart contracts also undermine counterparties' ability to continue collaboration when unanticipated eventualities arise. In most cases of unfulfilled parameters, the smart contract will simply cancel out.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

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