Types of inductive arguments
Argument from authority
An argument that concludes something is true because a presumed expert or witness has said that it is
Argument from analogy
An argument that depends on the existence of an analogy, or similarity between two things or state of affairs
Casual inference
An argument that proceeds from knowledge of a cause to a claim effect, or conversely from knowledge of an effect to a claim about a cause
Prediction
An argument that proceeds from our knowledge of the past to a claim about the future
Generalization
An argument that proceeds from the knowledge of a selected sample to some claim about the whole group
Argument based on signs
An argument that proceeds from the knowledge of a sign to a claim about the thing or situation that the sign symbolizes