You can use “perhaps” as a weasel word except when it is “perhaps a century” and the 3rd french republic was founded less than a century later. then there’s no adverb which can save a provably false statement.
“After the declaring independence in 1776 the newly formed United States enjoyed perhaps a century of peace with Britain before conflict reignited thirty-six years later in 1812.”
-Steven “my brain was sewn together out of used assholes” Pinker
You can use “perhaps” as a weasel word except when it is “perhaps a century” and the 3rd french republic was founded less than a century later. then there’s no adverb which can save a provably false statement.
“After the declaring independence in 1776 the newly formed United States enjoyed perhaps a century of peace with Britain before conflict reignited thirty-six years later in 1812.”
-Steven “my brain was sewn together out of used assholes” Pinker