Engineer A Intentional Deception vs Inadvertent Inaccuracy Distinction Application
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Engineer_A_Intentional_Deception_vs_Inadvertent_Inaccuracy_Distinction_Application
Properties
Instance of
ArtfullyMisleadingStatementProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ArtfullyMisleadingStatementProhibitionObligation
Case context
The Board explicitly limited its holding to intentionally misleading statements, distinguishing Engineer A's deliberate obscuring of team credit from unintentionally false or inaccurate statements, which the Board stated would not be unethical per se.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.89
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from making intentionally misleading statements on his resume — statements designed to obscure the truth about team authorship — recognizing that the ethics prohibition applies to intentional deception and not merely to inadvertent inaccuracies, and that Engineer A's deliberate omission of team context crossed the line from inadvertent error into intentional misrepresentation.
Temporal scope
At the time of resume preparation and submission to Employer Y
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Implied Sole Credit on Resume
Source Evidence
Source text
We stress however, that we do not mean to suggest that unintentionally false or inaccurate statements would be unethical per se.
Text references
Instead, we are referring to statements such as those made by Engineer A which are intentionally designed to mislead a potential employer by obscuring the truth.
We stress however, that we do not mean to suggest that unintentionally false or inaccurate statements would be unethical per se.
TTL
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case135:Engineer_A_Intentional_Deception_vs_Inadvertent_Inaccuracy_Distinction_Application a proeth:ArtfullyMisleadingStatementProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Intentional Deception vs Inadvertent Inaccuracy Distinction Application" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case135:Engineer_A_Artfully_Misleading_Resume_Implication_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case135:Engineer_A_Implied_Sole_Credit_on_Resume ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board explicitly limited its holding to intentionally misleading statements, distinguishing Engineer A's deliberate obscuring of team credit from unintentionally false or inaccurate statements, which the Board stated would not be unethical per se." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.89" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Intentional_Deception_vs._Inadvertent_Inaccuracy_—_Engineer_A_Deliberate_Obscuring_of_Team_Credit> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T15:48:54.714289+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T15:48:54.714289+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Artfully Misleading Statement Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from making intentionally misleading statements on his resume — statements designed to obscure the truth about team authorship — recognizing that the ethics prohibition applies to intentional deception and not merely to inadvertent inaccuracies, and that Engineer A's deliberate omission of team context crossed the line from inadvertent error into intentional misrepresentation." ;
proeth:sourcetext "We stress however, that we do not mean to suggest that unintentionally false or inaccurate statements would be unethical per se." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of resume preparation and submission to Employer Y" ;
proeth:textreferences "Instead, we are referring to statements such as those made by Engineer A which are intentionally designed to mislead a potential employer by obscuring the truth.",
"We stress however, that we do not mean to suggest that unintentionally false or inaccurate statements would be unethical per se." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 135 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:57:44.751849"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 135 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
135
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T15:48:54.714289+00:00
First case
135
Generated
2026-03-01T15:48:54.714289+00:00
Attributed to
Case 135 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T15:57:44.751849
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction