Need serious input about a logical form of premonition and prediction, please.?

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"Having an accurate foresight awareness (successful plan thus a prediction) is what we consider successful planning. When we subjectively plan something to happen and it successfully follows through and manifests into actuality, I would consider that an instance of premonition and a form of accurate prediction. For instance; If I plan to drive my car tomorrow at 7 a.m. and I successfully initiate and execute the said manifestation of my plan and it actually occurs, then it is as if I have foreseen the future."

Would you agree with this line of thinking? And if not could you please explain why through crisp logic and reason. Feel free to use your logic against my own. I am looking only to improve and I need the critique of others to do so.
I am not confused, but thank you for your input so far. Still, I see no difference between a plan being successful and a premonition. It is as if I have foreseen the future if everything works out how I envisioned.
I am anticipating that I will wake up and drive my car tomorrow at 7 a.m.
Kathy C. Thank you. However, I predict, plan, and have a premonition that I will wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. and drive my car. It is successful. No additional details, just that I would wake up and drive my car at 7 a.m. It happens successfully and accurately. Have I foreseen the future?
To Fallen. Yes, then I have predicted my accomplishment. Thank you for your input all.
 
If you say your going to do something, and you go about doing it, then you did what you said you where going to do. If you want to say so, then you forsaw the future; but you predisposed yourself into fulfilling that event. You went out of your way to allow your premonition come true; you did not then necessarily predict anything, but accomplished something.

In order for it to be a prediction, what you say is going to happen must happen ALL the time, which you and I both know to be impossible in reality. You can anticipate to go drive in your car tomorrow at 7 a.m only to find your car to be stolen. You may be killed later today by some unfortunate accident, you might find your home to be destroyed, unlikely, yet very real things that could interfere with your premonition, not to mention they where unpredictable. It may not happen tomorrow, but perhaps it can happen the next day, or next month, or a couple years, or when you least suspect it.

Interesting question.
 
Not at all the same.

What you are doing:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/planning


–noun
the act or process of making a plan or plans.
 
No doubt about it. But I wouldn't use the term "premonition". The ability to predict the future accurately is one of the most important features of intelligence. Much of it is intuitive, and in no way logical per se, but we don't always like to think of "intelligence" as being intuitive. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because no one can double-check your intuition, but they can check your logic.

In any case, the tendency to downplay intuition, or "premonition" as you call it, is not very realistic. If all we had was our meager logic, we would not be able to execute very many of our complex plans, and we certainly would be nearly blind as to what our day is going to be like tomorrow.

No matter how much you try to reduce intelligence to logic, it is always going to be mostly intuitive. That's also what makes us so fallible, but there's no way around it. Perhaps in time, by attempting to find ways of studying thought and planning as intuition (premonition) we will start to understand our own minds better.
 
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