I was praticing my latin and I came across with that. Well dudies, first of all, what is dr´? And how does "habita" apply to that sentence?
Maybe. Perharps because "dicitur" has "d" and "r", which form "dr´", i think.I think it is dicitur
You are right.I did translate it as passive ("had"). I don't think "is held to be" works here.
"Confusus" can't be disordered, because he's talking about knowing a composite thing as a whole rather than knowing it through its parts. It has to be "composed" or "combined", though I don't think St. Thomas uses "confusus" in this way; he uses "compositio", "compositus", and, more rarely, "coniunctus". But Chrysostomus Jovellus seems to be getting at the same thing. He's following the Aristotelian-Thomistic epistemic tradition of how we come to know things. You can tell by the definitions he provides in this and the following three paragraphs.You are right.
I don't know anything about philosophy. I was hoping @Pacifica might bail me out
My best guess:
The first knowledge, called actively disordered, had about the universal substance, is as something completely definable and is thus defined.
Man, I just looked in the google books tab: "inauthor: " Chrysostomus Javellus"" "or" Chrisostomus Javellus ", or" Javelli ". There all his books appear, but of course in the worst possible quality. But I have studied Saint Thomas and others, yes."Confusus" can't be disordered, because he's talking about knowing a composite thing as a whole rather than knowing it through its parts. It has to be "composed" or "combined", though I don't think St. Thomas uses "confusus" in this way; he uses "compositio", "compositus", and, more rarely, "coniunctus". But Chrysostomus Jovellus seems to be getting at the same thing. He's following the Aristotelian-Thomistic epistemic tradition of how we come to know things. You can tell by the definitions he provides in this and the following three paragraphs.
Anyway, I guess if I was going to put all my musings together, I'd come up with:
"The first knowledge had of a universal thing is called composed active [knowledge], which is something completely definable and is thus defined."
The distinctions between this kind of cognitio and the other three are classic scholastic logical or epistemic distinctions that have their roots in Aristotle. But CJ's terminology is different in some ways from St. Thomas'.
@Lucas Queiroz, how did you find Chrysostomus Jovellus? Also, have you read much of St. Thomas or other scholastics?