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.
Properties
Disjoint with
Code Provision Reference, Decision Point, Ethical Conclusion, Ethical Question, Precedent Case Reference, Question Emergence, Resolution Pattern
From
owl:disjointWith and owl:AllDisjointClasses membership; the listed classes are pairwise disjoint with this one.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 .