We assume many things in our lives, and base our feelings, actions, and thoughts on a myriad of brands of reasoning. For we all desire understanding of everything we encounter, from the most base of truths to the most eternally confounding of paradoxes. And there is, as Soren Kierkegaard lays out, "the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought in itself cannot think" (37). Yet this cannot be accomplished, for to attempt to bring comprehension and understanding to that ultimate paradox through historical fact is to not understand the nature by which it exists. In this way, we see that the details of history have no relevance to the determination of faith, and furthermore, that because of this, no need exists for anyone to have a ‘proving' experience of the "leap" (43) between understanding and paradox.
Kierkegaard divides understanding and paradox along the lines of ones ability to have a firm grasp on the logical derivation between the two. As......
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