Engineer A Cost Allocation Rationalization
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/85#Engineer_A_Cost_Allocation_Rationalization
Definition
Engineer A rationalized submitting incomplete drawings and specifications in part because he believed federal grant funds, rather than local funds, would cover any increased costs resulting from the deficiencies.
Properties
Instance of
CostAllocationBiasProhibitionPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CostAllocationBiasProhibitionPrinciple
Applied to
Decision to submit incomplete dam design documents
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A rationalized submitting incomplete drawings and specifications in part because he believed federal grant funds, rather than local funds, would cover any increased costs resulting from the deficiencies.
Confidence
0.92
Interpretation
The prohibition on cost-allocation bias required Engineer A to evaluate the adequacy of the deliverables against objective professional standards, not against assumptions about which party would bear remediation costs. The federal funding source did not lower the required standard of completeness.
Tension resolution
Engineer A improperly allowed cost-allocation assumptions to substitute for professional judgment about deliverable adequacy.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer A was confident that sufficient federal funds (and not local funding) would cover any potential increased costs
Source text
Engineer A was confident that sufficient federal funds (and not local funding) would cover any potential increased costs
TTL
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case85:Engineer_A_Cost_Allocation_Rationalization a proeth:CostAllocationBiasProhibitionPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Cost Allocation Rationalization" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case85:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Decision to submit incomplete dam design documents" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A rationalized submitting incomplete drawings and specifications in part because he believed federal grant funds, rather than local funds, would cover any increased costs resulting from the deficiencies." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:interpretation "The prohibition on cost-allocation bias required Engineer A to evaluate the adequacy of the deliverables against objective professional standards, not against assumptions about which party would bear remediation costs. The federal funding source did not lower the required standard of completeness." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Dam Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Cost Allocation Bias Prohibition Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Engineer A improperly allowed cost-allocation assumptions to substitute for professional judgment about deliverable adequacy." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A was confident that sufficient federal funds (and not local funding) would cover any potential increased costs" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 85 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 85 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A was confident that sufficient federal funds (and not local funding) would cover any potential increased costs" ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A rationalized submitting incomplete drawings and specifications in part because he believed federal grant funds, rather than local funds, would cover any increased costs resulting from the deficiencies." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A rationalized submitting incomplete drawings and specifications in part because he believed federal grant funds, rather than local funds, would cover any increased costs resulting from the deficiencies." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 85 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 85 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
85
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00
First case
85
Generated
2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 85 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 85 Extraction