If several months ago we had the pleasure of celebrating the centenary of the physicist and philosopher Mario Bunge at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), with the special publication of “Filosofia de la Tecnologia“(2019), for the first time in Catalan, on February 24, we had the regret of knowing his death in Montreal (Canada). Following their deep conviction, there was no subsequent ceremony. Similarly, on March 2, the Slovak linguist Gabriel Altmann, one of the fathers of Quantitative Linguistics, also died.
In less than a month I have lost two of my intellectual referents, two true humanists: Bunge & Altmann. Fortunately, we have his sublime work to accompany us: his legacy will last forever.
Mario Bunge 
Gabriel Altmann
Very few scientists like them have established bridges between the Sciences and the Humanities in the last Century. Both coincided in fighting pseudoscience and in claiming to formalize the Humanities from a scientific perspective, combating scholastic dogmatisms that have hampered and delayed consolidation as a science of Linguistics, and other humanistic disciplines.
Sit tibi terra levis, Mario Bunge & Gabriel Altmann