Causal Normative Link
Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/cases#CausalNormativeLink
Class Hierarchy
- Thing
- ↳ entity (bfo)
- ↳ continuant (bfo)
- ↳ generically dependent continuant (bfo)
- ↳ information content entity (iao)
- ↳ Causal Normative Link
Definition
An analytic statement connecting a causal step in the case narrative to its normative significance.
Property Structure
Object and Data Properties
rdfs:domain on this class or ancestor
| Property | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| analyzesAction | Action | Links a Step-4 causal-normative-link (reasoning) node to the committed Action it analyzes, so the reasoning is grounded in the graph and the obligation edges of the action are reachable from it. Domain proeth-cases:CausalNormativeLink, the class the emitter actually asserts (the earlier CausalChain domain wrongly inferred every reasoning node into the Step-3 NESS chain population); neither class is among the nine D-tuple categories, so there is no disjointness impact. Range Action. |
Used in cases 15
Case ontologies that instantiate this class or one of its base-ontology descendants. Computed from each individual's type, so the list stays current as cases are extracted. The originating case is shown under Extraction details.
Case 4 Case 5 Case 6 Case 7 Case 8 Case 9 Case 10 Case 16 Case 20 Case 56 Case 57 Case 58 Case 59 Case 103 Case 121@prefix core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix iao: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix pcsh: <http://proethica.org/shapes/core#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-cases: <http://proethica.org/ontology/cases#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix sh: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
pcsh:CaseAnalysisCitationShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Case analysis citation schema (citing subjects, descriptive)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "The Step-4 analysis records (conclusions, questions, causal-normative links) cite the NSPE provisions they rest on via citesProvision. Declared descriptively so the citing-subject pages document the edge; the extraction LLM never fills it (commit-stage resolution from the analysis text)."@en ;
sh:property [ pcsh:informationalOnly true ;
sh:description "The nspe: CodeProvision(s) this analysis record cites in support. Range: CodeProvision." ;
sh:name "cites provision" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path core:citesProvision ],
[ pcsh:informationalOnly true ;
sh:description "The provision designation as cited (e.g. 'I.4.'), kept verbatim on the analysis record; each designation that resolves against the NSPE provision registry is also materialized as a citesProvision edge. Borne by EthicalConclusion records in the current corpus." ;
sh:name "cited provision" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:citedProvision ] ;
sh:targetClass proeth-cases:CausalNormativeLink,
proeth-cases:EthicalConclusion,
proeth-cases:EthicalQuestion .
proeth-cases:CausalNormativeLink a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Causal Normative Link"@en ;
rdfs:comment "An analytic statement connecting a causal step in the case narrative to its normative significance."@en ;
rdfs:subClassOf iao:0000030 ;
skos:changeNote "v3.0.0 (2026-07-04): added; the commit bridge previously emitted these individuals untyped."@en ;
skos:definition "An information content entity linking a causal element of the case narrative (an action or event and its consequences) to the principles or obligations it engages, recording why that causal step matters normatively."@en .