is water wet?
#16320
how people answer this question says a lot about them and how they think about the world and more generally categorize and organize information on a broad scale. it is one of my favorite linguistic/philosophical games to play on people that are not expecting it

i do not think water is wet. if you think water is wet, convince me that water is wet. if you do not think water is wet, explain why you do not think it is wet
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#16321
to be "wet" means to have liquid attached in such a way it remains on the surface. that's not possible with water because it would just be more water
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#16322

my approach is usually reason, but this question would have a different answer based on too many factors

mostly definitions like what's the scale of "water" or what's the definition of "wet" - we can give immediate, subjective answers to those question just to be able to answer the first one but they're also questions of similar manner

there are also different scopes of parameters other than definitions, for example the choice - is the definition of "wet" X because it was said by the person that asked the question in the first place, or is it decided inside a group of people? if it's a group, which subset of all the groups and what statistic or method was the basis of their choice?

given the very limited scope of my own opinion, defining wet as "in contact with water", water as "one or more H2O molecules", and taking an ambiguous (dependent on human capabilities) definition of contact being "of distance between one another too small to perceive with the naked eye" i conclude that water is wet in most cases, the exception being when there is just one molecule of it

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#16323
@osk: but if you were to take an eyedropper and squirt a single drop of water onto a full-body towel, you wouldn't call the towel wet at that point. maybe more water makes the water wetter so that way it can then make other things wet that would not otherwise be made wet without that sufficient wetness

@saiku: for something to become wet implies a change of properties in the object which has become wet. water does not change fundamentally in its properties when more water is added to it, which would imply to me that it is not wet
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#16324

@reemo by my definitions it does become wet after you add the second molecule (the first one becoming wet with the second one), and each new one makes the subsets of all molecules that the new one comes in contact with wetter

also, funny thing with my definitions is that they imply intransitivity in molecule chains so if you stacked a 100 water molecules in a straight line on another water molecule it would be just as wet if you placed just 1 on top of it

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#16325
would steam be wet then? or ice, or snow? they're composed of the same molecules
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#16326

given i define fog and ice as the different states of water, then yes

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#16327
your definitions would require me to contradict reality, therefore i reject them. i have never seen ice make something wet, let alone be wet in itself
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#16328

it makes my eyes water when i place ice cubes around my pelvic area

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#16334
If we're talking in a real world sensual way, liquid cannot be felt as anything else but wet and in turn, "wet" implies that water is liquid, so yes it is wet.

If we're talking by definition, "wet" is anything that consists of/is covered in/is in, so the liquid can't consist of itself thus it's not wet.

There's no wrong answer, both apply, you're either practical or pragmatic.
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