Engineer A Honesty Incomplete Memo
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/14#Engineer_A_Honesty_Incomplete_Memo
Definition
Engineer A's summary memo presented an incomplete picture of the available delivery methods, creating a false impression that only two of the four approved options were viable, without disclosing the basis for excluding the other two.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
City B wastewater project summary memo
Balancing with
Loyalty
Concrete expression
Engineer A's summary memo presented an incomplete picture of the available delivery methods, creating a false impression that only two of the four approved options were viable, without disclosing the basis for excluding the other two.
Confidence
0.88
Interpretation
Honesty required Engineer A to present the full set of approved options and to be transparent about any reasons for limiting the analysis, so that City B could assess whether the recommendation reflected a complete professional evaluation.
Tension resolution
The honesty obligation was not fully satisfied. The memo's selective presentation, without explanation of the omissions, was misleading to a non-engineer client who lacked the background to identify the gap independently.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Honesty'
Matched Ontology Label
Honesty
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
City Administrator is not a licensed professional engineer.
Engineer A prepared a summary memo to City B Administrator and only identified Design-Bid-Build and Progressive-Design-Build as viable project delivery options.
Under the proposed funding source, there are four approved project delivery methods: Design-Bid-Build, Construction-Management-at-Risk, Fixed-Price-Design-Build, and Progressive-Design-Build.
Source text
Engineer A prepared a summary memo to City B Administrator and only identified Design-Bid-Build and Progressive-Design-Build as viable project delivery options.
TTL
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case14:Engineer_A_Honesty_Incomplete_Memo a proeth:Honesty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Honesty Incomplete Memo" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case14:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "City B wastewater project summary memo" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A's summary memo presented an incomplete picture of the available delivery methods, creating a false impression that only two of the four approved options were viable, without disclosing the basis for excluding the other two." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:interpretation "Honesty required Engineer A to present the full set of approved options and to be transparent about any reasons for limiting the analysis, so that City B could assess whether the recommendation reflected a complete professional evaluation." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Delivery Advisor Incomplete" ;
proeth:principleClass "Honesty" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The honesty obligation was not fully satisfied. The memo's selective presentation, without explanation of the omissions, was misleading to a non-engineer client who lacked the background to identify the gap independently." ;
proeth:textReferences "City Administrator is not a licensed professional engineer.",
"Engineer A prepared a summary memo to City B Administrator and only identified Design-Bid-Build and Progressive-Design-Build as viable project delivery options.",
"Under the proposed funding source, there are four approved project delivery methods: Design-Bid-Build, Construction-Management-at-Risk, Fixed-Price-Design-Build, and Progressive-Design-Build." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T08:43:46.016802+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Honesty'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/principles#Honesty> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Honesty" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A prepared a summary memo to City B Administrator and only identified Design-Bid-Build and Progressive-Design-Build as viable project delivery options." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A's summary memo presented an incomplete picture of the available delivery methods, creating a false impression that only two of the four approved options were viable, without disclosing the basis for excluding the other two." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A's summary memo presented an incomplete picture of the available delivery methods, creating a false impression that only two of the four approved options were viable, without disclosing the basis for excluding the other two." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T08:43:46.016802+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 14 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 14 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
14
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T08:43:46.016802+00:00
First case
14
Generated
2026-06-04T08:43:46.016802+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 14 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 14 Extraction