Speculative
# Speculative

Speculative may refer to:

## In arts and entertainment

* Speculative art (disambiguation)
* Speculative fiction, which includes elements created out of human imagination, such as the science fiction and fantasy genres
   * Speculative Fiction Group, a Persian literature group whose website which is named Fantasy Academy
   * Speculative poetry, a genre of poetry that focuses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes
* Speculative screenplay, or spec script, a non-commissioned, unsolicited screenplay
* The Speculative Society, a Scottish Enlightenment society dedicated to public speaking and literary composition, founded in 1764

## In computing

* Speculative execution, in computer systems is doing work, the result of which may not be needed. This performance optimization technique is used in pipelined processors and other systems
* Speculative multithreading, a dynamic parallelization technique that depends on out-of-order execution to achieve speedup on multiprocessor CPUs. It is a kind of speculative execution that occurs at the thread level as opposed to the instruction level

## In economics

* Speculation, the practice of engaging in risky transactions in an attempt to profit from fluctuations in market value
   * Speculative attack, denoting precipitous acquisition of assets by previously inactive speculators
   * Speculative demand, a demand for financial assets that is not dictated by real transactions such as trade or financing
   * Speculative development, in real estate
   * Speculative grade, a grade of bond below investment grade, having higher risk, but typically pay higher yield than better quality bonds
   * Economic bubble, when assets trade at a price that far exceeds an asset's intrinsic value due to speculation

## In linguistics

* Speculative mood, a grammatical mood found in some languages
* Speculative grammarians, members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism, active in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries
* Speculative Grammarian, a parody science journal

## In philosophy

* Speculative philosophy, an aspect of Continental philosophy
* Speculative realism, a movement in contemporary philosophy
* Speculative reason, theoretical as opposed to practical thought

## Other uses

* Speculative damages, in law, damages claimed by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future
* Speculative fire, a military tactic of firing to draw enemy fire and confirm the enemy's presence
* Speculative mason, in Freemasonry
* Speculative Period, defined in terms of archaeological methods employed in North America between 1492 and 1840
