title: Speculative
text: # 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
  