The Evaluation of Promising

An interpretation of a sporting event in extrinsic terms, e. g. Psychological, Theological, etc., may be interesting, but it does not effect its result per se.  Like games, Promising is an artifactual activity the fundamental value of which is exhaustively a function of the performance of it itself, i. e. whether or not a promise is kept.  Thus, past performance determines the status of a new promise, and a promise is unfilled to only a creditor.  Accordingly, Nietzsche's concept of a "right" to make promises, and Kant's concept of an 'ought', i. e. an a priori obligation to an abstract entity, are, at minimum, interpretations of Promising that superimpose on it extrinsic evaluative criteria.  At maximum, by reducing it to either a Psychological phenomenon or a Logical proposition, they falsify its artifactuality.  In general, by imputing to Promising more than it actually involves, an interpretation detracts from how it might be Morally exemplary, i. e. as exemplifying that the primary locus of Moral evaluation is a performance itself.