Question Emergence
Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/cases#QuestionEmergence
Class Hierarchy
- Thing
- ↳ entity (bfo)
- ↳ continuant (bfo)
- ↳ generically dependent continuant (bfo)
- ↳ information content entity (iao)
- ↳ Question Emergence
Definition
The grounding rationale for an ethical question: which case facts, states, and tensions give rise to it.
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 iao: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth-cases: <http://proethica.org/ontology/cases#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
proeth-cases:QuestionEmergence a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Question Emergence"@en ;
rdfs:comment "The grounding rationale for an ethical question: which case facts, states, and tensions give rise to it."@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 recording why a specific ethical question arises in a case: the configuration of facts, obligations, and states from which the question emerges. Pairs one-to-one with an EthicalQuestion and preserves the analytic chain from case content to posed question."@en .