Failure to Consult Available Sources State
Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FailuretoConsultAvailableSourcesState
Definition
State in which a professional conducting a review or investigation declines to consult available witnesses, records, or knowledgeable parties whose input would be material to the accuracy and completeness of the professional's conclusions, creating a condition of avoidable epistemic incompleteness and a breach of the duty of due diligence.
Properties
Subclass of
Action Constraints
Professional must not dismiss available records without stated technical justification
Professional must not issue conclusions without reasonable investigation of available sources
Activation Conditions
Knowledgeable parties or records are available and accessible
Professional declines to consult those sources
Professional is conducting a review or investigation
The unconsulted sources would be material to the professional's conclusions
Confidence
0.86
Obligation Activation
Duty of due diligence in investigation
Duty to consult available knowledgeable parties
Duty to seek out material information before issuing conclusions
Persistence Type
inertial
Principle Transformation
Transforms the general duty of objectivity and thoroughness into a specific obligation to actively seek out and consider available material information before issuing professional conclusions.
State Category
information
Termination Conditions
Engagement concludes
Professional consults the available sources
Report is supplemented with findings from those sources
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Source Evidence
Text references
At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records.
No effort was made by Engineer B to inquire from contractors, workers, or others on the job to verify or refute his theories about why the 19 piles met driving refusal prior to predicted depth.
Source text
At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records.
Used in cases 1
Case ontologies that instantiate this class. Computed from each individual's type, so the list stays current as cases are extracted. The originating case is shown under Extraction details.
Case 71TTL
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proeth:FailuretoConsultAvailableSourcesState a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Failure to Consult Available Sources State" ;
proeth:actionConstraints "Professional must not dismiss available records without stated technical justification",
"Professional must not issue conclusions without reasonable investigation of available sources" ;
proeth:activationConditions "Knowledgeable parties or records are available and accessible",
"Professional declines to consult those sources",
"Professional is conducting a review or investigation",
"The unconsulted sources would be material to the professional's conclusions" ;
proeth:confidence "0.86" ;
proeth:obligationActivation "Duty of due diligence in investigation",
"Duty to consult available knowledgeable parties",
"Duty to seek out material information before issuing conclusions" ;
proeth:persistenceType "inertial" ;
proeth:principleTransformation "Transforms the general duty of objectivity and thoroughness into a specific obligation to actively seek out and consider available material information before issuing professional conclusions." ;
proeth:stateCategory "information" ;
proeth:terminationConditions "Engagement concludes",
"Professional consults the available sources",
"Report is supplemented with findings from those sources" ;
proeth:textReferences "At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records.",
"No effort was made by Engineer B to inquire from contractors, workers, or others on the job to verify or refute his theories about why the 19 piles met driving refusal prior to predicted depth." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 1 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:26:51.674939+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records." ;
rdfs:comment "State in which a professional conducting a review or investigation declines to consult available witnesses, records, or knowledgeable parties whose input would be material to the accuracy and completeness of the professional's conclusions, creating a condition of avoidable epistemic incompleteness and a breach of the duty of due diligence." ;
rdfs:subClassOf proeth:InformationState ;
skos:definition "State in which a professional conducting a review or investigation declines to consult available witnesses, records, or knowledgeable parties whose input would be material to the accuracy and completeness of the professional's conclusions, creating a condition of avoidable epistemic incompleteness and a breach of the duty of due diligence." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:26:51.674939+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
71
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T14:26:51.674939+00:00
First case
71
Generated
2026-06-04T14:26:51.674939+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 71 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']