SelectiveReportingState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SelectiveReportingState
Class Hierarchy
- Thing
- ↳ entity (bfo)
- ↳ continuant (bfo)
- ↳ specifically dependent continuant (bfo)
- ↳ State (proethica-core)
- ↳ Disclosure State (proethica-intermediate)
- ↳ Selective Reporting State
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Case Provenance
- Case 4: Sustainable Development and Resilient Infrastructure first
- Case 5: Community Engagement for Infrastructure Projects
- Case 7: Use of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Practice
- Case 8: Balancing Client Directives and Public Welfare: Stormwater Management Dilemma
- Case 9: Acknowledging Errors in Design
- Case 16: Impaired Engineering
- Case 58: Public Welfare at What Cost?
Properties
Property Structure
| Property | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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). |
| Attribute | Property (sh:path) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| state archetype | stateCategory | 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. |
| persistence type | persistenceType | 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. |
| Attribute | Property (sh:path) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| urgency level | urgencyLevel | The salience or acuteness of the state in this case (Jones 1991 moral-intensity salience; components include temporal immediacy, magnitude of consequences, and proximity). |
| activates obligation | activatesObligation | 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. |
| activates constraint | activatesConstraint | The constraint the state activates, via the outgoing S->Cs activatesConstraint edge, bounding the actions available while the state holds. Range: Constraint. |
| affects | affects | 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. |
| subject | subject | The entity the state holds of (the bearer text); a kept literal that also feeds the defeasibility prompt as state context. |
| active period | activePeriod | The period over which the state holds, as extracted text. |
| triggering event | triggeringEvent | 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). |
| terminated by | terminatedBy | What removes the state; kept verbatim on the individual and also resolved to the terminatedByEvent edge (the end boundary of the fluent). |
| activated by event | activatedByEvent | The Event whose occurrence initiates this state, via the outgoing activatedByEvent edge (the start boundary of the fluent). Range: Event. |
| terminated by event | terminatedByEvent | The Event whose occurrence ends this state, via the outgoing terminatedByEvent edge (the end boundary of the fluent). Range: Event. |
| From | Property | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |