Speculation was ideologically naturalized as intrinsic to human nature.

Evidence

For this project to succeed, speculation itself had to be imagined as a universal force, “intrinsic to human nature and present in all societal realms” (Preda 2009, 176). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 133

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ideological prehistory of ‘homo speculans’ as a naturalized, universalized figure—essential to the reader’s definitional task.