Continuing to think about this, it's occurred to me that I've spent so much time digging into Galen's and Empedocles's framings of the world, and the grander no

Continuing to think about this, it's occurred to me that I've spent so much time digging into Galen's and Empedocles's framings of the world, and the grander notion of the integrated universe, that they have, in some abstract way, had an impact on the way I think about things. I don't believe that an excess of something called black bile, which relates to autumn, Earth, etc. makes me feel melancholy, but I have, numerous times, described my girlfriend as 'sanguine' to people who've not met her, and then, when I was rightly mocked for saying that instead of something more colloquial, proceeded to attempt to justify my word choice with an approximate characterization of her based on a humorist framework. Perhaps this is just a product of insufferable douchiness and self-satisfaction, and is little more than analogizing, but that's kind of all beliefs are, anyway.