Precognition

'Precognition' connotes 'awareness of a future of event'. It is not a mere imaginative anticipation of an occurrence that eventually does come to pass, but the mental recording of a concrete fact. However, as the recording of a fact, it must be preceded by the occurrence of that fact. Hence, an event that is the object of such an awareness must be in past with respect to the awareness. In other words, 'precognition' is a contradictory notion, and the burden is on someone who insists otherwise to explain how it is even possible, let alone to demonstrate that it is actual. Plainly, that a 'vision comes true', does not disprove that the correspondence between imaginative anticipation and eventual occurrence is, perhaps enhanced by a canny projection of an ongoing trend, is not coincidental. And, a claim of immunity from that burden, on the grounds that such a phenomenon defies rational explanation, is indistinguishable from an acknowledgment of the unsoundness of the assertion that the phenomenon exists.