We formally introduce and study a notion of 'soft induction' on entiti
es with an operationally motivated logico-algebraic description, and i
n particular the derived notions of 'induced state transition' and 'in
duced property transition'. We study the meaningful collections of the
se soft inductions which all have a quantale structure due to the intr
oduction of temporal composition and arbitrary choice on the level of
these state transitions and the corresponding property transitions.