Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Lady on His Father. Who Are You?
Hume was referring to that old Galen view that the different ratios of liquids in your body actually affects your personality. So, this was just like a theory of personality humor, which is recently vindicated again. It resonates. Reficous. Sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic and caloric. All right. Pay no attention to that band behind the curtain. Who are you? I'm very bad man. I'm a very good man. Good man. They think they lost with no more brains than you have. Anybody can have a brain? You're a verybad man. And a very good men. Just a very bad wizard.
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