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Posted By: wwh intuition, tuition - 01/27/04 02:07 PM
Thinking about "illation" brought me to "intuition", and I discovered that contrary to what I had assumed, it is not cognate with "tuition". I had always thought "intuition"
was comprehension not acquired from teachers.

tuition [tju¢°'©„ʃən]
noun
1 instruction, esp. that received in a small group or individually

2 the payment for instruction, esp. in colleges or universities
[ETYMOLOGY: 15th Century: from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitio a guarding, from tueri to watch over]
tu'itional adjective


intuition [ˌ©„ntjʊ'©„ʃən]
noun
1 knowledge or belief obtained neither by reason nor by perception

2 instinctive knowledge or belief

3 a hunch or unjustified belief

4 (Philosophy) immediate knowledge of a proposition or object such as Kant's account of our knowledge of sensible objects

5 the supposed faculty or process by which we obtain any of these
[ETYMOLOGY: 15th Century: from Late Latin intuitio a contemplation, from Latin intueri to gaze upon, from tueri to look at]
"intu'itional adjective
"intu'itionally adverb(ial)



Posted By: Wordwind Re: watching over - 01/27/04 02:29 PM
In reply to:

from tueri to look at/from tueri to watch over


I'd say that I have to 'watch over' my daughter's tuition, which is extremely high--and I also have to carefully 'look at' my intuition, which, although fairly good, can be as blasted wrong as my thought processing.

Posted By: wwh Re: watching over - 01/27/04 02:48 PM
College tuitions have increased way out of proportion to inflation. Harvard tuition in the thirties was $400 per annum. I don't know what it is now, but I suspect it is forty times what it was then.

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