SelectiveReportingState

Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SelectiveReportingState
Class Hierarchy
Definition

A condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties, here the state in which all available information about both design approaches, including risks and benefits, has been presented to the client's leadership.

Inherited from Case 16

A disclosure condition in which a professional who knows of another engineer's apparent violation, here sealing work performed by another with little to no review while impaired, has not reported the matter to the State Board, so the information about the violation is withheld from the licensing authority.

Inherited from Case 58

A disclosure condition in which public funds are diverted for the benefit of a third party without the knowledge of the funding authority, so that the material fact of the diversion is hidden from those entitled to know it. Here the prospective condition, arising if Engineer Intern D cooperates with the directed revision, in which no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale, a condition the Board frames as placing the truth directly at risk.

Inherited from Case 5

A condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties in which a report presents a carefully framed account, omitting material details about how the underlying input was gathered, so that the conclusions conveyed misrepresent the actual situation.

Inherited from Case 7

A disclosure condition in which material information about how a work product was produced is withheld from the recipient, here the omission of any citation of the AI software and AI-assisted drafting tools used to generate the report and the engineering design documents.

Inherited from Case 8

A disclosure condition in which material risk information known to the professional has not been communicated to a party, here the condition in which the potential increased risk to the community drinking water source was not mentioned to the client during suspension communications.

Inherited from Case 9

A disclosure condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties, here the state in which Engineer T responded factually to all questions regarding the design and the design process but, not having been asked whether an error had been made, did not offer an acknowledgement of a possible error.

Inherited from DisclosureState

A condition of what information has been disclosed, withheld, concealed, or selectively presented among the parties, including states of confidentiality and of omission. As a content kind it is the standing of information flow between agents, distinct from EpistemicState, which is what a single agent knows. Its deontic relevance is that it activates disclosure, notification, and confidentiality obligations.

Properties
Activation Conditions
Engineer K's presentation of all available information at the City Council meeting
Confidence
0.87
Persistence Type
inertial
Principle Transformation
With full disclosure made, the informed decision rests with the City's leadership rather than with the engineer.
State Category
disclosure
Property Structure
1 · Object and Data Properties rdfs:domain on this class or ancestor
PropertyRangeDescription
activatedByEvent inherited Event Event Calculus initiation: relates a State to the Event whose occurrence brings the State into being (the start boundary of the fluent).
activatesConstraint inherited Constraint Relates a State to a Constraint that the obtaining of the State activates, bounding the actions available to the role-bearers the state concerns (the S->Cs linkage).
activatesObligation inherited Obligation Relates a State to an Obligation that the obtaining of the State makes applicable. This is the forward, activating complement of defeasibleUnder (which records the State under which an obligation yields): a state such as hazard exposure or an undertaken commitment can bring an obligation into force for the role-bearers it concerns.
affects inherited Agent Relates a State to the Agent(s) it bears on in the case scenario (the parties whose situation the state changes), distinct from the obligations/constraints the state activates (activatesObligation / activatesConstraint).
terminatedByEvent inherited Event Event Calculus termination: relates a State to the Event whose occurrence ends the State (the end boundary of the fluent).
2 · Definitional Attributes SHACL definitional shape
AttributeProperty (sh:path)Description
state archetypestateCategoryThe content archetype, which drives the archetype subClassOf typing: EpistemicState, RiskState, CompetenceState, EmergencyState, ConflictOfInterestState, RegulatoryState, TemporalState, ResourceState, DisclosureState. A classification of the state content, explicitly NOT the activatesObligation relation. A routing input, not stored as a literal.
persistence typepersistenceTypeWhether the state is an inertial fluent (holds until an event terminates it) or a non-inertial fluent (true at a single time point), the inertial versus non-inertial fluent distinction of Berreby et al. (2017) in the Event Calculus; a class-level datatype, a property of the fluent predicate itself.
3 · Bearer Attributes SHACL property shape individual data
AttributeProperty (sh:path)Description
urgency levelurgencyLevelThe salience or acuteness of the state in this case (Jones 1991 moral-intensity salience; components include temporal immediacy, magnitude of consequences, and proximity).
activates obligationactivatesObligationThe obligation the state makes applicable, via the outgoing S->O activatesObligation edge; the incoming counterpart is defeasibleUnder (O->S), recording the obligation that yields when this state obtains. Range: Obligation.
activates constraintactivatesConstraintThe constraint the state activates, via the outgoing S->Cs activatesConstraint edge, bounding the actions available while the state holds. Range: Constraint.
affectsaffectsThe agent(s) the state bears on, via the S->Agent affects edge, resolved from the affected-parties text by embedding shortlist + LLM multi-select. Range: Agent.
subjectsubjectThe entity the state holds of (the bearer text); a kept literal that also feeds the defeasibility prompt as state context.
active periodactivePeriodThe period over which the state holds, as extracted text.
triggering eventtriggeringEventThe event bringing the state into being; kept verbatim on the individual and also resolved to the activatedByEvent edge (the start boundary of the fluent).
terminated byterminatedByWhat removes the state; kept verbatim on the individual and also resolved to the terminatedByEvent edge (the end boundary of the fluent).
activated by eventactivatedByEventThe Event whose occurrence initiates this state, via the outgoing activatedByEvent edge (the start boundary of the fluent). Range: Event.
terminated by eventterminatedByEventThe Event whose occurrence ends this state, via the outgoing terminatedByEvent edge (the end boundary of the fluent). Range: Event.
4 · Referenced By rdfs:range on this class or ancestor
FromPropertyDescription
Action initiates inherited Event Calculus initiation: relates a happening (Action or Event) to a State (fluent) that begins to hold as a result and persists until terminated (inertial) or holds momentarily (non-inertial).
Action terminates inherited Event Calculus termination: relates a happening (Action or Event) to a State (fluent) that ceases to hold as a result.
Event initiates inherited Event Calculus initiation: relates a happening (Action or Event) to a State (fluent) that begins to hold as a result and persists until terminated (inertial) or holds momentarily (non-inertial).
Event terminates inherited Event Calculus termination: relates a happening (Action or Event) to a State (fluent) that ceases to hold as a result.
Obligation defeasibleUnder inherited Relates an obligation to a State whose obtaining renders the obligation defeasible, that is, subject to override by a competing obligation with stronger normative support. The State specifies the context in which the obligation yields.
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer K presents all available information about both the Traditional Approach and the Sustainable Approach, including the risks and benefits of each approach to the City’s leadership during a City Council meeting.

Source text
Engineer K presents all available information about both the Traditional Approach and the Sustainable Approach, including the risks and benefits of each approach to the City’s leadership during a City Council meeting.
Used in cases 6

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 5 Case 7 Case 8 Case 16 Case 57 Case 58
@prefix core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @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-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @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#> . proeth:SelectiveReportingState a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "SelectiveReportingState" ; proeth:activationConditions "Engineer K's presentation of all available information at the City Council meeting" ; proeth:confidence "0.87" ; proeth:persistenceType "inertial" ; proeth:principleTransformation "With full disclosure made, the informed decision rests with the City's leadership rather than with the engineer." ; proeth:stateCategory "disclosure" ; proeth:textReferences "Engineer K presents all available information about both the Traditional Approach and the Sustainable Approach, including the risks and benefits of each approach to the City’s leadership during a City Council meeting." ; proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 16, 58 ; proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 1 ; proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ; proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-07-05T02:35:31.298046+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 4 ; proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ; proeth-prov:matchReasoning "The condition of full information having been disclosed to the City is exactly the canonical Disclosure State, the standing of information flow between agents." ; proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:DisclosureState ; proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Disclosure State" ; proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ; proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer K presents all available information about both the Traditional Approach and the Sustainable Approach, including the risks and benefits of each approach to the City’s leadership during a City Council meeting." ; rdfs:comment "A condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties, here the state in which all available information about both design approaches, including risks and benefits, has been presented to the client's leadership." ; rdfs:subClassOf proeth:DisclosureState ; skos:definition "A condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties, here the state in which all available information about both design approaches, including risks and benefits, has been presented to the client's leadership." ; skos:scopeNote "[Case 16] A disclosure condition in which a professional who knows of another engineer's apparent violation, here sealing work performed by another with little to no review while impaired, has not reported the matter to the State Board, so the information about the violation is withheld from the licensing authority.", "[Case 58] A disclosure condition in which public funds are diverted for the benefit of a third party without the knowledge of the funding authority, so that the material fact of the diversion is hidden from those entitled to know it. Here the prospective condition, arising if Engineer Intern D cooperates with the directed revision, in which no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale, a condition the Board frames as placing the truth directly at risk.", "[Case 5] A condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties in which a report presents a carefully framed account, omitting material details about how the underlying input was gathered, so that the conclusions conveyed misrepresent the actual situation.", "[Case 7] A disclosure condition in which material information about how a work product was produced is withheld from the recipient, here the omission of any citation of the AI software and AI-assisted drafting tools used to generate the report and the engineering design documents.", "[Case 8] A disclosure condition in which material risk information known to the professional has not been communicated to a party, here the condition in which the potential increased risk to the community drinking water source was not mentioned to the client during suspension communications.", "[Case 9] A disclosure condition of what information has been disclosed among the parties, here the state in which Engineer T responded factually to all questions regarding the design and the design process but, not having been asked whether an error had been made, did not offer an acknowledgement of a possible error.", "[DisclosureState] A condition of what information has been disclosed, withheld, concealed, or selectively presented among the parties, including states of confidentiality and of omission. As a content kind it is the standing of information flow between agents, distinct from EpistemicState, which is what a single agent knows. Its deontic relevance is that it activates disclosure, notification, and confidentiality obligations." ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-07-05T02:35:31.298046+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 4 Extraction", "claude-fable-5" . pcsh:CaseAnnotationShape a sh:NodeShape ; rdfs:label "Shared per-case annotation schema (all nine components)"@en ; rdfs:comment "The cross-component annotation fields on committed case individuals: proeth:confidence (extraction confidence, decimal; all components except Action, whose Step-3 contract carries no confidence field), proeth:textReferences (verbatim supporting quotes, universal), proeth-prov sourceText (the source snippet, on the Step-1/2 provenance layers; Step-3 A/E individuals ground via textReferences only), and the involvement gloss (proeth:caseInvolvement on role individuals, proeth:caseContext on obligation, capability, and constraint individuals). Values are per-individual; the fields do not individuate any type."@en ; sh:property [ sh:description "Extraction confidence for this individual (0 to 1)." ; sh:name "confidence" ; sh:order 1 ; sh:path proeth:confidence ], [ sh:description "Verbatim case quotes supporting this individual." ; sh:name "text references" ; sh:order 2 ; sh:path proeth:textReferences ], [ sh:description "How this individual figures in the case narrative (role individuals; the same text is routed into rdfs:comment)." ; sh:name "case involvement" ; sh:order 3 ; sh:path proeth:caseInvolvement ], [ sh:description "Grounding context in this case (obligation, capability, and constraint individuals)." ; sh:name "case context" ; sh:order 4 ; sh:path proeth:caseContext ] ; sh:targetClass core:Action, core:Capability, core:Constraint, core:Event, core:Obligation, core:Principle, core:Resource, core:Role, core:State . pcsh:StateDefinitionShape a sh:NodeShape ; rdfs:label "State definition schema (type-level, descriptive, field contract)"@en ; rdfs:comment "What individuates a state TYPE: its content archetype (drives the archetype subClassOf typing) and its persistence type (inertial vs non-inertial fluent, a class-level datatype). Its per-case urgency and the activatesObligation edge are per-individual and declared on StatePropertyShape, mirroring the Role/Principle/Obligation Definition/Property split and the state scopeNote (which names the condition and its persistence type as type-defining). Descriptive only (no validation result); state_category is a routing input, not stored as a literal."@en ; sh:property [ sh:description "The content archetype, which drives the archetype subClassOf typing: EpistemicState, RiskState, CompetenceState, EmergencyState, ConflictOfInterestState, RegulatoryState, TemporalState, ResourceState, DisclosureState. A classification of the state content, explicitly NOT the activatesObligation relation. A routing input, not stored as a literal." ; sh:name "state archetype" ; sh:order 1 ; sh:path proeth:stateCategory ], [ sh:description "Whether the state is an inertial fluent (holds until an event terminates it) or a non-inertial fluent (true at a single time point), the inertial versus non-inertial fluent distinction of Berreby et al. (2017) in the Event Calculus; a class-level datatype, a property of the fluent predicate itself." ; sh:name "persistence type" ; sh:order 2 ; sh:path proeth:persistenceType ] ; sh:targetClass core:State . pcsh:StatePropertyShape a sh:NodeShape ; rdfs:label "State per-case schema (individual data, non-definitional)"@en ; rdfs:comment "What a given state INDIVIDUAL is described by in a specific case: its bearer and holding period, its urgency (per-case salience), the event boundaries of the fluent, and the obligations, constraints, and agents its obtaining engages via edges. These do NOT individuate the state TYPE (that is StateDefinitionShape); their values are per-case, asserted on the individual. The proeth:principleTransformation synthesis literal (the S->P->O grounding written onto the individual by the state-edge pass) is deliberately not part of the extraction field contract. Descriptive only."@en ; sh:property [ sh:description "The salience or acuteness of the state in this case (Jones 1991 moral-intensity salience; components include temporal immediacy, magnitude of consequences, and proximity)." ; sh:name "urgency level" ; sh:order 1 ; sh:path proeth:urgencyLevel ], [ sh:description "The obligation the state makes applicable, via the outgoing S->O activatesObligation edge; the incoming counterpart is defeasibleUnder (O->S), recording the obligation that yields when this state obtains. Range: Obligation." ; sh:name "activates obligation" ; sh:order 2 ; sh:path core:activatesObligation ], [ sh:description "The constraint the state activates, via the outgoing S->Cs activatesConstraint edge, bounding the actions available while the state holds. Range: Constraint." ; sh:name "activates constraint" ; sh:order 3 ; sh:path core:activatesConstraint ], [ sh:description "The agent(s) the state bears on, via the S->Agent affects edge, resolved from the affected-parties text by embedding shortlist + LLM multi-select. Range: Agent." ; sh:name "affects" ; sh:order 4 ; sh:path core:affects ], [ sh:description "The entity the state holds of (the bearer text); a kept literal that also feeds the defeasibility prompt as state context." ; sh:name "subject" ; sh:order 5 ; sh:path proeth:subject ], [ sh:description "The period over which the state holds, as extracted text." ; sh:name "active period" ; sh:order 6 ; sh:path proeth:activePeriod ], [ sh:description "The event bringing the state into being; kept verbatim on the individual and also resolved to the activatedByEvent edge (the start boundary of the fluent)." ; sh:name "triggering event" ; sh:order 7 ; sh:path proeth:triggeringEvent ], [ sh:description "What removes the state; kept verbatim on the individual and also resolved to the terminatedByEvent edge (the end boundary of the fluent)." ; sh:name "terminated by" ; sh:order 8 ; sh:path proeth:terminatedBy ], [ sh:description "The Event whose occurrence initiates this state, via the outgoing activatedByEvent edge (the start boundary of the fluent). Range: Event." ; sh:name "activated by event" ; sh:order 9 ; sh:path core:activatedByEvent ], [ sh:description "The Event whose occurrence ends this state, via the outgoing terminatedByEvent edge (the end boundary of the fluent). Range: Event." ; sh:name "terminated by event" ; sh:order 10 ; sh:path core:terminatedByEvent ] ; sh:targetClass core:State .
Metadata
Type
Class
Last Updated
2026-07-05 15:17
Discovered in case
['4', '5', '7', '8', '9', '16', '58']
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-07-05T02:35:31.298046+00:00
First case
4
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
The condition of full information having been disclosed to the City is exactly the canonical Disclosure State, the standing of information flow between agents.
Matched Ontology Label
Disclosure State
Matches Existing
true
Generated
2026-07-05T02:35:31.298046+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 4 Extraction', 'claude-fable-5']