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• W314588667 abstract "The following is a summary of Korzybski's remarks at a luncheon held in his honor at the Yale Faculty Club in February 1949. IFEEL THAT I am honored to be here at Yale and I wish that I might have been an alumnus of Yale if for no other reason than to have had the privilege to study under your great pioneer, Professor J. Willard Gibbs. He was without doubt one of the greatest scientists this country has ever produced. I did not know Professor Gibbs personally; he was forty years my senior. But I do know his work and his brilliant student and colleague, E.B. Wilson, also one of your former professors, who is living and doing creative work. While he was still practically a youngster, Wilson wrote up Gibbs' modernization of the vector calculus. It is no exaggeration to say that without Gibbs and Wilson there would be no simplified and workable vector calculus. Without Gibbs, mathematical physics and modern physical chemistry, that has produced so much, would be greatly handicapped. Wilson and I (and also Einstein by the way) were born in the same year, 1879. It was a very fortunate scientific period to be born into, for in the nineteenth century began the most scientifically revolutionary epoch the world has ever known, and that revolution is still going on in the twentieth century. Some of the most radical new work in physics and in mathematics had just been done or was being done. The new developments from which we are only now beginning to reap the results in technological advances, including the release of nuclear energies, etc., were all in the air. It was inevitable that we who were born at that time should absorb them, and that our work should become a part of them. Of Professor Gibbs I shall speak especially warmly since it is from achievements such as his that I was able to produce my own work. You will recall that Gibbs studied on the continent and he was influenced both by American and by continental mathematical and physical outlooks. At that time attention on the continent was mostly on so-called 'pure' mathematics. In America it was predominantly on applied mathematics. It is not surprising then that what Gibbs produced was a synthesis of the two. As Professor Wilson points out, Gibbs refused to go flying off into endless theorizing until it was warranted by the 'facts.' While developing his theories he kept his feet on the ground, which accounts ultimately for the great value and importance of his work to us. The great tradition of Yale University is not only carried on in the department of exact sciences, but also it permeates other departments, such as Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, Law, etc. I am grateful for the generous cooperation of some members of the faculty of those departments. You see therefore why I feel so honored to be here at Yale. I shall speak now very briefly of my own work. In General Semantics we are not concerned with physics or with mathematics as such. What we are concerned with is physico-mathematical method, which a layman and even a child can understand and absorb. This method happens to be a higher order abstraction, a digest from both physics and mathematics, which is applicable by human beings everywhere in daily life. …" @default.
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