Discussion
The truth of the premises of an inductive argument do not :
Answer: A
The truth of an inductive argument's premises does not in an a priori way lead to the truth of its conclusion.
In a valid deductive argument the conclusion follows by logical form alone, so true premises guarantee a true conclusion necessarily and a priori. In an inductive argument the conclusion goes beyond the premises, so even true premises make it only probable; it remains logically possible that the premises are true and the conclusion false. That is Hume's problem of induction.
The other options describe the kind of support induction does give: prima facie, empirically grounded (a posteriori) and forward-looking support for the conclusion.
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