Plato’s use of the adverbial expression “suddenly” (exaiphnēs) is an appropriate metaphor for identifying the transformative nature of an “instantaneous” axiomatic change inside of the human mind. Lyndon LaRouche identified this as the transfinite measure of a discovery of principle of going from a lower to a higher manifold. In the Parmenides, Plato qualified such a changing state of mind as a “sudden instantaneous moment” which he identified as the unifying mental action of a One over the Many.
Throughout European history, the primary advocates of such an epistemological function of the human mind have been Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Nicholas of Cusa, Gottfried Leibniz, and Lyndon LaRouche. These thinkers have used such a timely form of action for the same historical purpose, which is to modify and measure the power of the human mind with respect to God and the infinite for the common benefit and progress of mankind.
In that sense, “suddenly” (exaiphnēs) represents an instantaneous and unforeseen action of change which reflects the state of perplexity of the thinking person at the decisive moment of discovering, not merely the growing capacity of his or her mind at some moment in history, but also, the power of going beyond the limits of the apparent finite domain of knowledge, by measuring the critical steps of an unbounded human transfinite progress; thus, proving by factual demonstration that there are no limits to growth.
