CONCEPTS OF INTUITION / PREMONITION / PRESENTIMENT AS ASPECTS OF «I»

Abstract

This study is part of an ongoing investigation into the cognitive dimensions of the concept of the «I». Its purpose is to define the notional components of the concepts INTUITION, PREMONITION, and PRESENTIMENT, to delineate the conceptual domains within which these concepts operate, and to identify their integral and distinctive features. The concepts INTUITION, PREMONITION, and PRESENTIMENT constitute the object of this research. The lexemes intuition, premonition, and presentiment serve as linguistic designations of the corresponding concepts and are regarded as synonyms according to thesaurus sources. Their lexical meanings form the subject of the study. The relevance of this research is determined by the growing interdisciplinary interest in the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms through which abstract and introspective phenomena are conceptualized and verbalized. The concepts INTUITION, PREMONITION, and PRESENTIMENT occupy an important place at the intersection of cognition, emotion, and temporality, reflecting the ways in which human consciousness perceives and interprets pre-reflective or anticipatory forms of knowing. The lexemes intuition, premonition, and presentiment, functioning as direct nominative means of the concepts INTUITION, PREMONITION, and PRESENTIMENT respectively, and exhibiting both shared and distinctive notional components in various contexts, provide the material for the research. Despite their frequent interchangeability in thesaurus and everyday usage, these concepts differ in their semantic structure, epistemic orientation, and affective modality. Clarifying their notional composition and the domains within which they function contributes to a deeper understanding of the cognitive organization of subjective experience and of the linguistic means through which subtle mental states are expressed. The study is also relevant for cognitive linguistics, philosophy of mind, and psycholinguistics, as it provides insight into how language encodes non-discursive forms of cognition and anticipatory awareness, thereby bridging conceptual analysis and phenomenological inquiry.