# kaal:position:2026-08-08-058

**Affirmed position.** All Smart Contracts Are Ambiguous argues that technical facts can depend on socially determined facts, so smart-contract code can remain ambiguous. This independently qualifies the idea that code eliminates interpretive uncertainty and corresponds to Kaal's concern about how courts interpret coded agreements. The proposition does not specify Kaal's reasonable-human interpretive test or a particular legal doctrine.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-08-08

**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 qualification.
- 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 states that smart-contract code can remain ambiguous because technical facts depend on socially determined facts. This directly qualifies any assumption that computer code eliminates interpretive uncertainty and corresponds to Kaal's concern about human interpretation, but it does not specify a judicial reasonable-person test.

**Current debate.** All Smart Contracts Are Ambiguous: https://doi.org/10.31228/osf.io/v37zd

**Extends.** kaal:claim:2992962-017: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-017

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962

**Source PDF sha256.** `80b92e67594394e38af41b769327936833de8e25d6cf3def966a6ba13bc83d17`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification

**Mapping confidence.** 0.62  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, smart-contracts, historical-response, scholarly-literature, crossref

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-reviewed-v1 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.