Firm Biologist Intern Epistemic Humility Materiality Deference Obligation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#Firm_Biologist_Intern_Epistemic_Humility_Materiality_Deference_Obligation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
CompleteandUnfilteredUpwardReportingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompleteandUnfilteredUpwardReportingObligation
Case context
The firm biologist identified that the condominium project could threaten a bird species classified as 'threatened' by federal and state regulators and appropriately reported this finding to Engineer A. The biologist fulfilled the upward reporting obligation; the ethical violation occurred at Engineer A's level in the decision not to include the finding in the written report.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.88
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Firm biologist (employee of Engineer A's environmental engineering firm)
Obligation statement
The firm biologist was obligated to report the threatened species observation to Engineer A — the principal — without independently filtering or withholding the finding based on the biologist's own assessment of its materiality or regulatory significance, recognizing that the determination of whether to include the finding in the written report was properly Engineer A's professional judgment to make.
Temporal scope
At the time of identifying the threatened species concern during the firm's analysis
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Intern Epistemic Humility and Materiality Deference Applied to Biologist Reporting
Source Evidence
Source text
one of the engineering firm's biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area
Text references
one of the engineering firm's biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area
TTL
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case83:Firm_Biologist_Intern_Epistemic_Humility_Materiality_Deference_Obligation_Instance a proeth:CompleteandUnfilteredUpwardReportingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Firm Biologist Intern Epistemic Humility Materiality Deference Obligation Instance" ;
proeth:casecontext "The firm biologist identified that the condominium project could threaten a bird species classified as 'threatened' by federal and state regulators and appropriately reported this finding to Engineer A. The biologist fulfilled the upward reporting obligation; the ethical violation occurred at Engineer A's level in the decision not to include the finding in the written report." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case83:Intern_Epistemic_Humility_and_Materiality_Deference_Applied_to_Biologist_Reporting ;
proeth:discoveredincase "83" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "83" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Firm biologist (employee of Engineer A's environmental engineering firm)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Complete and Unfiltered Upward Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The firm biologist was obligated to report the threatened species observation to Engineer A — the principal — without independently filtering or withholding the finding based on the biologist's own assessment of its materiality or regulatory significance, recognizing that the determination of whether to include the finding in the written report was properly Engineer A's professional judgment to make." ;
proeth:sourcetext "one of the engineering firm's biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of identifying the threatened species concern during the firm's analysis" ;
proeth:textreferences "one of the engineering firm's biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 83 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T19:15:08.291096"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 83 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
83
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00
First case
83
Generated
2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00
Attributed to
Case 83 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T19:15:08.291096
Generated by
ProEthica Case 83 Extraction