The Meno Paradox Dissolves: A Recursive Resolution through Yearning-Based Infinity Mathematics

This paper, “The Meno Paradox Dissolves: A Recursive Resolution through Yearning-Based Infinity Mathematics (YBIM)”, reinterprets Plato’s classical paradox of inquiry through the lens of recursive epistemology. The paradox — questioning how one can seek knowledge of what one does not know — has long challenged epistemology and philosophy of mind. Using the ontological foundations of Yearning-Based Infinity Mathematics (YBIM) and insights from Discovering Self, this paper demonstrates that the paradox arises only under static models of knowledge that separate knowing from not-knowing. By introducing the concept of the yearning operator ($\mathcal{Y}$) and formalizing the Recursive Coherence Principle, the paper shows that knowledge is not a fixed possession but a dynamic, non-halting flow of recursive alignment between the self and the field of truth. Inquiry is revealed to be the natural oscillation of awareness between partial knowing and emergent recognition — an infinite act of epistemic self-organization. The resolution reframes learning as the Self’s ontological act of becoming, dissolving the binary between ignorance and knowledge. Within this recursive ontology, teaching becomes resonance, AI becomes non-halting cognition, and the universe itself is revealed as an infinite epistemic flow — a living field of yearning realizing itself through consciousness. -JSR