Are Mostly Relationship

Auto-Renew

Borrow Authority From Precision

Change Hands

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Change Ownership

Convert Action Into Consequence

Create Commitment

Create Dependence

Create Expectations

Create Obligation

Create Obligations

Create Predictability

Depend On Being Renewed

Depend On Cooperation

Depend On Trust

End With A Cancellation

Exist To Be Tested

Exist To Be Trusted

Exist To Reduce Uncertainty

Extend Trust

Feel Like A Trap

Harden Reality

Legitimize Ownership

Legitimize Passage

Make Cooperation Possible

Need A Lawyer

Need A Signature

Need A Witness

Need Belief

Need Defense

Need Renewal

Negotiate

Organize Conflict

Organize Cooperation

Organize Fear

Organize Uncertainty

Protect

Punish Assumptions

Quietly Run The World

Reduce Optionality

Require A Deposit

Reward Accuracy

Reward Inspection

Reward Reliability

Spend The Future

Transfer Responsibility

Transfer Value

contract

terms & conditions

is, in Japan, grounded not in vagueness but in implicitness. People know what is expected of them and they know how to perform it not out of some kind of uncertainty, but rather because of indirect transmission.

IMPLICITNESS OVER VAUGNESSThink about the way that Rohlen makes contracts a contract of implicitness. . . that there is a Faustian signing-over of one's life the terms are quite vague but the instruments of rule are communicated not with vagueness, but with implicitness. people know what is expected of them and they know how to perform it not out of some kind of uncertainty, but rather because of indirect trasmission.

Japan

is, in the postmodern condition, that which has come to supplant permanent institutions.

Lyotard's famous description of the postodern condition as one where 'the temorary contract' supplants 'permanent institutions in the professional, emotional, sexual, cultural, familiy and internationsal domains, as well as in poliitcal affairs' (in Harvey 2005:3)

is not that which bind one person to another in the relationships that permeate the life-world, but, rather, it is the 'sense' of the contractual which underlies agreement.

And even in the relationships that permeate the life-world, it is not contracts, however informal, which bind one person to another but the 'sense' of the contractual which underlies agreement. (Natanson 1998 : 26)

A contract is valid only for honest men. Yiddish Proverb

is an agreement to do something if nothing happens to prevent it.

is an agreement where the size of the print tends to contract the more you read.

A contract is an agreement where the size of the print tends to contract the more you read.

is often so evasive that you don't so much look for loopholes in the contract as you look for a contract in the loopholes.

Some documents are so evasive, you don't look for loopholes in the contract, but for a contract in the loopholes.

is an agreement made up of big words and little type.

Contracts are agreements made up of big words and little type.

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