Honesty in Professional Representations Invoked By Engineer A Business Card Content
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Business_Card_Content
Properties
Instance of
HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
Applied to
Business card content accuracy across all four situations
Balancing with
Qualification Transparency in Professional Title Use
Social Context PE Title Display Non-Violation Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A's business card content across all four situations is evaluated for whether it makes truthful and accurate representations of licensure status; Situations 2 and 3 are compliant, Situation 1 is potentially misleading by omission, and Situation 4 is accurate for State B.
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
Honesty in professional representations requires not only the absence of false statements but also the absence of misleading omissions — a PE designation without state-of-licensure identification in a business context may be technically true but misleading.
Invoked by
Engineer A Multi-Jurisdiction Business Card Presenter
Tension resolution
In business contexts, honesty requires affirmative disclosure of licensure jurisdiction; in social contexts with non-engineers, the accuracy of the card's content for the state of licensure satisfies the honesty requirement.
Source Evidence
Source text
does not list a mailing address, nor does it identify the states in which Engineer A is licensed
Text references
Engineer A is licensed in State B and his business card contains only State B information.
The business card lists Engineer A's name, phone, fax, and e-mail address but does not list a mailing address, nor does it identify the states in which Engineer A is licensed.
TTL
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case128:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Business_Card_Content a proeth:HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Honesty in Professional Representations Invoked By Engineer A Business Card Content" ;
proeth:appliedto "Business card content accuracy across all four situations" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Qualification Transparency in Professional Title Use",
"Social Context PE Title Display Non-Violation Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's business card content across all four situations is evaluated for whether it makes truthful and accurate representations of licensure status; Situations 2 and 3 are compliant, Situation 1 is potentially misleading by omission, and Situation 4 is accurate for State B." ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T21:55:27.009831+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T21:55:27.009831+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Honesty in professional representations requires not only the absence of false statements but also the absence of misleading omissions — a PE designation without state-of-licensure identification in a business context may be technically true but misleading." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Multi-Jurisdiction Business Card Presenter" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty in Professional Representations" ;
proeth:sourcetext "does not list a mailing address, nor does it identify the states in which Engineer A is licensed" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "In business contexts, honesty requires affirmative disclosure of licensure jurisdiction; in social contexts with non-engineers, the accuracy of the card's content for the state of licensure satisfies the honesty requirement." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is licensed in State B and his business card contains only State B information.",
"The business card lists Engineer A's name, phone, fax, and e-mail address but does not list a mailing address, nor does it identify the states in which Engineer A is licensed." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.650386"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 128 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
128
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T21:55:27.009831+00:00
First case
128
Generated
2026-02-28T21:55:27.009831+00:00
Attributed to
Case 128 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T22:14:48.650386
Generated by
ProEthica Case 128 Extraction