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'''Silvio Ceccato''' (1914–1997) was an Italian philosopher and logician who founded the [[Operational School]] of thought in Milan, an influential but under-recognized movement that sought to reconstruct epistemology through operational analysis of linguistic and cognitive processes. Ceccato's work on ''linguistic operationalism'' — the claim that meaning arises from operational procedures rather than reference to objects — provided a crucial philosophical infrastructure for [[Ernst von Glasersfeld]]'s later development of [[Radical Constructivism|radical constructivism]]. The Operational School's focus on how cognitive agents construct reality through active operations, rather than passively receiving it, anticipated constructivist themes that would later achieve wider recognition through cybernetics and [[Second-Order Cybernetics|second-order cybernetics]].

''Ceccato's obscurity in Anglo-American philosophy is not an accident of translation but a symptom of a deeper disciplinary blindness: the Operational School's insistence that philosophy must become an empirical, constructive discipline — rather than an interpretive one — threatened the institutional identity of academic philosophy at mid-century. His work was dismissed as engineering

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