intuit

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As most of us intuit, the financial crisis has been manufactured entirely by greed and fraud and this interview clearly and concisely exposes this process.

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  1. transitive verb Usage Problem To know intuitively.
  2. usage note
    The use of intuit as a verb is well established in reputable writing, but some critics have objected to it. Only 34 percent of the Usage Panel accepts it in the sentence Claude often intuits my feelings about things long before I am really aware of them myself. This lack of acceptance is often attributed to the verb's status as a back-formation from intuition, but in fact the verb has existed as long as other back-formations, such as diagnose and donate, that are now wholly acceptable. The source of the objections most likely lies in the fact that the verb is often used in reference to more trivial sorts of insight than would be permitted by a full appreciation of the traditional meaning of intuition. In this connection, a greater percentage of the Panel, 46 percent, accepts intuit in the sentence Mathematicians sometimes intuit the truth of a theorem long before they are able to prove it. See Usage Note at enthuse.

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  • I accept instead those truths we intuit, or make up to live by. —  I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC! - Ray Bradbury
  • I will tell everyone to avoid this program and that if you have a problem turbo tax (intuit) wont help you.
  • As most of us intuit, the financial crisis has been manufactured entirely by greed and fraud and this interview clearly and concisely exposes this process. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • BUT … the danger is that you or I would begin to intuit, to feel that worship is somehow about me - what I like, what I don't. —  The bob.blog feed!
  • You can see the relics of desktop computing in our applications 'file menus … and we can intuit the assumptions that the original designer must have made about the user, her context and the interaction expectations she brought with her: —  unalog
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  1. Back-formation from intuition.

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  1. Also intuite; from Latin intuitus, past participle of intueri, look at or upon, observe, regard, contemplate, consider, from in, in, on, + tueri, look: see tuition, tutor.
 

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