are dealing with varying degrees of likelihood. Achieving

131

something less modest than

proof

beyond

a

reasonable doubt does not make the linguist's enterprise worthless or uninteresting.

Again, our discussion of the kish and the Karelian-North Russian situations shows that a careful consideration

of

a wide range

of

evidence may take us a long way totvards conclusions which can be sustained .wittr

a

reasonably hígh degree

of

lil<clihood. And this

is

as far as we can go

in

most cases.

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