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quentin-skinner

11 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 5 observations, 1 question, 3 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.

• 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
• Do the vault's myth-ledger back-projection cases actually sort into Skinner's prolepsis vs. mythology of doctrines vs. coherence?
  capture promoted 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, prolepsis, mythology-of-doctrines, mythology-of-coherence
• The 'Perceptrons killed connectionism' myth only half-fits Skinner's taxonomy — its causal-attribution component falls outside all four mythologies
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-doctrines, myth-ledger, perceptrons
• Skinner's Machiavelli 'founder' example adds a causal-naivety charge to the vault's Schmidhuber prolepsis case
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-prolepsis, myth-ledger, schmidhuber
• Skinner's mythology of coherence finds no clean instance among the vault's myth-ledger cases
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-coherence, myth-ledger, backpropagation-origins
• Werbos's 'credit assignment' and Amari's 'five-layer MLP' are independent instances of Skinner's mythology of doctrines
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-doctrines, myth-ledger, werbos
• Quentin Skinner's 'mythology of prolepsis' (1969) names the conflation of an action's retrospective significance with the agent's own intended meaning
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, anachronism, whig-history
• Skinner's 1969 essay names four distinct historiographical 'mythologies' — doctrines, coherence, prolepsis, parochialism — not one generic anachronism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, anachronism, intellectual-history
• Skinner's prolepsis and mythology of doctrines name two distinct modes of the vault's back-projection pattern — significance-as-intent versus anachronistic-term-crediting
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, myth-ledger, whig-history
• Do the vault's myth-ledger back-projection cases actually sort into Skinner's prolepsis vs. mythology of doctrines vs. coherence?
  question open 2026-07-27 · prolepsis, quentin-skinner, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, verification
• Does Skinner's 'mythology of prolepsis' (1969) name the error side of the vault's back-projection misattributions?
  capture promoted 2026-07-20 · historiography, quentin-skinner, prolepsis, anachronism, whig-history