jardine

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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
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