Against Reflective Equilibrium for Logical Theorizing

I distinguish two ways of developing anti-exceptionalist approaches to logical revision. The first emphasizes comparing the theoretical virtuousness of developed bodies of logical theories, such as classical and intuitionistic logic. I'll call this whole theory comparison. The second attempts local repairs to problematic bits of our logical theories, such as dropping excluded middle (and modifying elsewhere accordingly) to deal with intuitions about vagueness. I'll call this the piecemeal approach. I then briefly discuss a problem I've developed elsewhere for comparisons of logical theories. Essentially, the problem is that a pair of logics may each evaluate the alternative as superior to themselves, resulting in oscillation between logical options. The piecemeal approach offers a way out of this problem andthereby might seem a preferable to whole theory comparisons. I go on to show that reflective equilibrium, the best known piecemeal method, has deep problems of its own when applied to logic.

Tree Pruning in Electrical Network: Topic and Fundamentals in Machines and Robots

This paper presents a current literature and techno¬logical revision of tools and equipment for tree pruning or forest cutting in the electricity and telecommunications lines, showing a research methodology based on consultation of patents and databases of national projects, selecting the more representative.In the end, it proposes a panorama of the market and identifies possible innovations and suggestions for news and better machines for the area.