With his great knowledge of Latin he should have no problem in translating '
obscurum per obscurius'.
It seems a bloated realism at best, one that explains
obscurum per obscurius, and that is committed more to Meinong than to Aristotle and Brentano.
To some readers this may seem like a case of explaining
obscurum per obscurius, but Della Rocca's analogy is both ingenious and illuminating.
From the beginner's point of view it must often seem a matter of
obscurum per obscurius. The vantage point from which the various sciences are compared is not the vantage point of any special science.
The implications of this conclusion, however, remain enigmatic.(13) Indeed it is a case of
obscurum per obscurius, for we lack firm dates and provenance for both these works.