Engineer A Honesty Concealment of Deficiency
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/85#Engineer_A_Honesty_Concealment_of_Deficiency
Definition
Engineer A concealed the known incompleteness of the drawings and specifications from the client, the federal approving engineer, and the bidding contractors, allowing all parties to proceed under the false impression that the documents were adequate.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Communications with local public agency, federal approving authority, and bidding process
Balancing with
Desire to maintain client relationship
Schedule pressure
Concrete expression
Engineer A concealed the known incompleteness of the drawings and specifications from the client, the federal approving engineer, and the bidding contractors, allowing all parties to proceed under the false impression that the documents were adequate.
Confidence
0.91
Interpretation
Honesty required Engineer A to communicate the known deficiencies in the deliverables to affected parties. Silence in the face of known deficiency, when parties are relying on the documents as complete, constitutes a form of professional dishonesty.
Tension resolution
Honesty was not upheld. Engineer A allowed the deficient documents to proceed through approval and bidding without disclosure.
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
Engineer A generally agrees with Hi-Lo's characterization
did not inform anyone as to their incompleteness
Source text
did not inform anyone as to their incompleteness
TTL
@prefix case85: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/85#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix proeth-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case85:Engineer_A_Honesty_Concealment_of_Deficiency a proeth:Honesty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Honesty Concealment of Deficiency" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case85:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Communications with local public agency, federal approving authority, and bidding process" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Desire to maintain client relationship",
"Schedule pressure" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A concealed the known incompleteness of the drawings and specifications from the client, the federal approving engineer, and the bidding contractors, allowing all parties to proceed under the false impression that the documents were adequate." ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:interpretation "Honesty required Engineer A to communicate the known deficiencies in the deliverables to affected parties. Silence in the face of known deficiency, when parties are relying on the documents as complete, constitutes a form of professional dishonesty." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Dam Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Honesty" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Honesty was not upheld. Engineer A allowed the deficient documents to proceed through approval and bidding without disclosure." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A generally agrees with Hi-Lo's characterization",
"did not inform anyone as to their incompleteness" ;
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 0.95 ;
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 "did not inform anyone as to their incompleteness" ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A concealed the known incompleteness of the drawings and specifications from the client, the federal approving engineer, and the bidding contractors, allowing all parties to proceed under the false impression that the documents were adequate." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A concealed the known incompleteness of the drawings and specifications from the client, the federal approving engineer, and the bidding contractors, allowing all parties to proceed under the false impression that the documents were adequate." ;
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