Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation VII: On Presumption
PResumption is taken in various ways: and indeed among the Jurists, by interpreting, or consenting for the absent, or judging according to presumed causes, it signifies nothing illicit: but in the discipline of morals, one sort is interior, whereby one who prefers his own sense wrongly to another's; another is exterior, whose signs are (says the Seraphic Doctor, part 1, in the Mirror of Discipline, chapter 5) eyes too lofty, the head raised, and a haughty countenance. But how it is to be taken here, I shall show below.
De Praesumptione.
PRaesumptio variis modis sumitur: et quidem apud Iuristas, interpretando, vel consensum absentis, vel iudicando iuxta praesumptas causas, non illicitum quid sonat: in Disciplina vero morum, alia est interior, qua sensum proprium perperam qui praefert alieno; alia exterior, cuius indicia sunt (inquit Seraphicus Doctor part. 1. in speculo disciplinae, cap. 5.) sublimiores oculi, elatum caput, et facies vultuosa. Hic autem quomodo sumatur, infra indicabo.