butterfield

15 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 6 claims, 2 observations, 1 question, 5 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Canguilhem's 1966/1968 critique names 'the precursor' a counterfeit historical object, citing a genealogy independent of Butterfield's Whig vocabulary

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · canguilhem, precursorism, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
Jardine (2003) dates the Whig/Whiggish fusion into history-of-science usage to a 1961 exchange, earlier than Canguilhem's 1966 precursor critique, and never mentions Canguilhem

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-09 · jardine, canguilhem, butterfield, whig-history, precursorism
Does Canguilhem's 'precursor as false object' critique predate and run independent of the Whig-history fusion — making Butterfield the label, not the source?

capture promoted 2026-10-04 · canguilhem, precursorism, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
A precursor is not an influence — 'Brooks builds on Dreyfus,' the named move that builds such lineages, and the documented link that runs toward disagreement

topic map 2026-10-04 · moc, brooks, dreyfus, precursorism, whig-history
Historiography of science names a bias 'precursorism' — retroactively finding forerunners of present ideas in the past — and classifies it as a species of Whig history

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-03 · whig-history, precursorism, historiography-of-science, presentism, butterfield
Jordanous's Dreyfus-as-precursor framing reads as a token of 'precursorism,' the named category — giving the Butterfield/Jordanous bridge a documented mechanism rather than a surface analogy

observation seedling Tier 2 2026-10-03 · whig-history, precursorism, butterfield, jardine, jordanous
Does Canguilhem's 'precursor as false object' critique predate and run independent of the Whig-history fusion — making Butterfield the label, not the source?

question answered 2026-10-03 · precursorism, canguilhem, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
Brooks 1986 memo vs Jordanous's 'precursor': the memo's Dreyfus engagement is one introduction paragraph that concedes Dreyfus's premise — a disagreement with the 2026-09-24 sibling's 'rebuttal' valence

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-26 · brooks, dreyfus, jordanous, butterfield, precursor
Is Jordanous's 'precursor' framing of Dreyfus an instance of the inference Butterfield's Whig history names? A mechanism link, with a scope limit

capture promoted 2026-09-24 · whig-history, precursor, anachronism, butterfield, jordanous
Butterfield's 1931 text names finding a 'root' or 'anticipation' of the present in the past as the characteristic output of present-referenced history, and calls it a misleading analogy

claim seedling Tier 1 (primary text; reproduction fidelity unverified) 2026-09-24 · whig-history, precursor, anachronism, butterfield, historiography
Butterfield's 1931 text warns that the whig historian forgets a line of descent is his own 'mental trick' and takes it for a line of causation

claim seedling Tier 1 (primary text; reproduction fidelity unverified) 2026-09-24 · whig-history, causation, butterfield, historiography, lineage
Jordanous's 'precursor' framing of Dreyfus performs the likeness-labelling step of Butterfield's mechanism but stops short of the causal-line step

observation seedling Tier 2 (named academic, own journal venue; open-access commentary, not a research article) for Jordanous; Butterfield side Tier 1 via reproduction. The synthesis itself is interpretation. 2026-09-24 · whig-history, precursor, butterfield, jordanous, dreyfus
Precursorism names the mechanism bridging Butterfield's Whig history and Jordanous's Dreyfus-as-precursor-to-Brooks framing

capture promoted 2026-09-23 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, historiography-of-science, presentism, precursorism
Does the Butterfield/Weinberg defensible-vs-anachronistic split actually hold when tested against every entry in the vault's myth-ledger?

capture promoted 2026-09-04 · whig-history, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, butterfield, weinberg
Weinberg's science exemption and Wikipedia's summary of Butterfield's own critique both explicitly name and reject hero/villain historical narratives, not only anachronistic concept-importing

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-04 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, weinberg, butterfield