Problem: Humoral theory, the dominant conceptual theory that informed how one understood illness and mental distress for hundreds of years, only make sense within which paradigm? Geocentric paradigm and the belief that the world was made up of four elements. Heliocentric paradigm and the belief that the world was made up of four elements. None of these answers A geocentric paradigm and the belief that the mind was porous and easily influenced by the four elements and the spirit world.