Agreement: Interpretation of Contracts and Smart Contracts: Smart Interpretation or Interpretation of Smart Contracts?

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-054 · 2026-08-08

Interpretation of Contracts and Smart Contracts distinguishes deterministic computer language, in which one meaning and result are contemplated, from natural language, which remains open to multiple meanings. This independently supports the language-logic mechanism in Kaal's claim about smart-contract interpretation. The proposition does not by itself establish that smart contracts cannot accommodate human business interaction in every setting.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

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: substantively reviewed abstract-level agreement.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source independently identifies the mechanism behind Kaal's interpretation concern: computer language is deterministic while natural language admits multiple meanings. It supports the language-logic distinction, but does not establish the downstream claim that human business interaction cannot be accommodated.

Current debate

Interpretation of Contracts and Smart Contracts: Smart Interpretation or Interpretation of Smart Contracts?

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3406323-032
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323
Source PDF sha256: 6293780b57a1ae1de17ec00f99cc94295d4f72ea4d08b17a5c08c44772b221db

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level agreement
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: fe684ffcf3147f85381189e07c7666901a7e6428874052df7a68bb33db833a88
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