Actually, I think it goes back to choices made in the first iteration of D&D psionics, that continues to this day. Namely, the names.
In AD&D, starting fires with your mind is called "Molecular Agitation." Healing people was called "Cellular Adjustment." Seeing something at a distance was called "Clairvoyance." Seeing something before it happened was called "Precognition."
In Valdemar, a relatively standard-type fantasy setting, psionics is everywhere. It's called "Mind Magic". "Molecular Agitation" is called "Firestarting". "Cellular Adjustment" is called "Healing". "Clairvoyance" is called "Farseeing." "Precognition" is called "Foreseeing."
The names are a lot more fantasy in feeling, and fit in better with the usual pseudo-classical cosmologies of game worlds.