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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)
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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.
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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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