# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6685

**Affirmed position.** The <scp>Unidroit</scp> Principles and the inflexibility of code as law: reconciling smart contracts with general clauses presents the following source proposition: These technologies follow a deterministic, if/then logic that is often difficult to reconcile with the inherent malleability of contract law. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that 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. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
- External evidence level: abstract indexed.
- Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
- Primary mapping confidence: 0.3658.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** The <scp>Unidroit</scp> Principles and the inflexibility of code as law: reconciling smart contracts with general clauses: https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unae014

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3406323-032: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-032

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

**Source PDF sha256.** `6293780b57a1ae1de17ec00f99cc94295d4f72ea4d08b17a5c08c44772b221db`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** moderate-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3658  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** smart-contracts, historical-response, scholarly-literature, openalex

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0005 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.