Inductive arguments claim that the truth of the premises provide grounds for the likelihood or probability of the truth of the conclusion. Although a great deal of attention is focused on deductive arguments, much reasoning can not be presented as making the strong claim of deductive necessity . When an argument claims to provide some grounds for the truth of the conclusion but not to necessitate that conclusion, it is considered an inductive argument.
Inductive logic is concerned with techniques for the appraisal of inductive arguments.
For the most part, inductive logic provides only rather loose and informal guidelines for assessing the relative strength or weakness of one inductive argument over others.