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whig-history

41 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 17 claims, 6 observations, 5 questions, 12 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.

• Three of Fable's six attribution-drift mechanisms — name-magnetism, citation-vacuum-filling, retrospective relabel — have no exact-match term in philosophy-of-science or citation-analysis literature
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · attribution-drift, citation-analysis, name-magnetism, retrospective-relabel, halo-effect
• 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
• McClellan's quoted 'Whiggism'-to-'precursoritis' link diagnoses one book under review, not a general classification of precursorism as Whig history
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-09 · precursorism, whig-history, mcclellan, teresi, historiography-of-science
• 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
• Does McClellan's 2002 Science review itself classify 'precursorism' as a form of Whig history, at primary?
  capture promoted 2026-10-04 · precursorism, whig-history, historiography-of-science, mcclellan, verification
• 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
• Does McClellan's 2002 Science review itself classify 'precursorism' as a form of Whig history, at primary?
  question open 2026-10-03 · precursorism, whig-history, historiography-of-science, mcclellan, verification
• 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
• What genuinely connects Schmidhuber's 'Annotated History' prolepsis and Nicely's 2011 FAQ memory-reconstruction caveat?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-22 · bridge-check, schmidhuber, thomas-nicely, whig-history, historiography-of-ai
• The 0.88 cosine pairing between Schmidhuber's unhedged Leibniz prolepsis and Nicely's self-flagged memory-reconstruction caveat is not an evidentiary bridge, but names a real contrast in epistemic self-labeling
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-22 · bridge-check, schmidhuber, thomas-nicely, whig-history, historiography-of-ai
• 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
• Do Schmidhuber's arXiv:2212.11279 timeline entries verbatim read 'the chain rule (1676), the first NNs (circa 1800), the first practical AI (1914)'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, verification, history-of-ml
• Schmidhuber states the 1914 Torres y Quevedo 'first practical AI' claim unhedged, unlike a comparable priority claim he hedges elsewhere in the same paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, torres-y-quevedo, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, priority-dispute
• Schmidhuber's oft-quoted 'chain rule (1676)…' timeline phrase is drawn from his Abstract's summary sentence, not from the paper's own section headings
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-ml, quote-check
• What does Michael Mahoney's own 'The Histories of Computing(s)' (2005) actually argue about Whig history in computing?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Mahoney's 2005 essay never uses the term 'Whig history' or cites Butterfield — its critique is framed as anti-hype and anti-determinism, not an explicit Whig-history argument
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Mahoney frames machine-centred computing history as technological determinism ('impact theory') and argues for restoring human agency to the 'communities of computing'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, technological-determinism
• Mahoney argues machine-centred computing history reads the computer's contingent path as inevitable because 'hype hides history'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• 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 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
• 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
• Does the 'deep-lineage myth displacing contingent truth' shape recur across enough vault domains to warrant a myth-correction-as-historiography MOC?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-18 · historiography, myth-correction, citogenesis, moc-candidate, pattern-watch
• Herbert Butterfield's 1931 book defined 'Whig history' as the practice of studying the past with reference to the present
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, philosophy-of-science, cross-domain-bridge
• Historian Michael S. Mahoney argued computing has no single history — only irreducibly plural 'histories' of the 'communities of computing' that shaped it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Schmidhuber's 'Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning' dates the field's origin to the 1676 chain rule and circa-1800 neural nets — reading the present category back onto the deep past
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, schmidhuber, credit-assignment
• Steven Weinberg argues Whig history is legitimate specifically for science, because scientific progress lets historians say who was right
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, philosophy-of-science, weinberg
• Butterfield/Weinberg's whig-history critique does not sort the vault's AI-history myth-ledger cleanly into two kinds — a hero/villain-narrative mode and a residual bibliometric/scope-conflation mode resist the binary
  observation seedling 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, myth-ledger, philosophy-of-science
• What does Michael Mahoney's own 'The Histories of Computing(s)' (2005) actually argue about Whig history in computing?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · mahoney, whig-history, history-of-computing, verification, historiography-of-ai
• Do Schmidhuber's arXiv:2212.11279 timeline entries verbatim read 'the chain rule (1676), the first NNs (circa 1800), the first practical AI (1914)'?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · schmidhuber, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, verification, history-of-ml
• Does the Butterfield/Weinberg defensible-vs-anachronistic split actually hold when tested against every entry in the vault's myth-ledger?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · whig-history, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, verification, synthesis-check
• Whig history names what the vault's AI-history myth-ledger polices — and Weinberg's science exemption complicates it
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, credit-assignment, backpropagation