Suggesting an imagined cause with “perhaps” can form a tentative variant akin to ḥusn al-taʿlīl.
The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl