That is the premise of the present study. I pursue the possibility that “perhaps” belongs to another “regime” than that of mere opinion and hazy indecision,7 that it enjoys an “irreducible modality” all its own. I am in search of a “perhaps” that is not a category of logic but proves to be of a more subtle disposition, one uniquely accommodated to address the “event,” one that is indeed “the only possible thought of the event.”8
