Our HCI Design Theory class has begun discussing the relationship between design and science. The latter is a quest to explain truth through repeatable observation, describing a predictable understanding of the general. The former, on the other hand, is about changing the truth through the creation of new things on behalf of specific others. If the design view of science criticizes it for a focus on an impractical general rule, then so, too, is a particular an impractical abstraction of reality.