Unexplored Alternative Design State
Class
e7be0277
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#UnexploredAlternativeDesignState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer completed a design by selecting a single approach without exploring alternative design concepts that, in retrospect, would have been functionally equivalent but materially safer for construction workers or other affected parties, creating post-hoc uncertainty about whether the failure to explore alternatives constitutes a professional error.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer completed a design by selecting a single approach without exploring alternative design concepts that, in retrospect, would have been functionally equivalent but materially safer for construction workers or other affected parties, creating post-hoc uncertainty about whether the failure to explore alternatives constitutes a professional error.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer T realized that had alternative design concepts been explored early on, the new structural modifications could have been proposed in a fundamentally different, more complex, but functionally equivalent way
TTL
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rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer completed a design by selecting a single approach without exploring alternative design concepts that, in retrospect, would have been functionally equivalent but materially safer for construction workers or other affected parties, creating post-hoc uncertainty about whether the failure to explore alternatives constitutes a professional error." ;
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Metadata
Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
e7be02772914a0cd...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
9
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-24T22:30:58.950003+00:00
First Discovered In Case
9
Generated
2026-02-24T22:30:58.950003+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 9 Extraction