if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, its probably a duck. and water feels wet.
if water is considered not wet because it only makes other things wet, then why is wet paper considered wet, since, by the same logic, it only makes other things wet.
The paper is the other thing. I don’t understand the question.
‘Wet’ is a concept ancestor people came up with to describe how their towels were sometimes squishy and sometimes weren’t. I don’t think they knew what molecules were.
Knowing that your clothes are soaked in water is useful, but knowing that a river is soaked in… river, isn’t. So, that part of the definition just doesn’t develop.
But also, like you’re saying, ‘wet’ is a feeling. Dipping your hand in a pot or squeezing a sponge feel similarly, so… aren’t they both wet?
So, which is it? Wet or not?
Whatever is socially expedient, I really don’t care. Water feels wet is good enough for me.
I wouldn’t really consider the water to be touching itself, it just IS itself. If you replaced the paper with water, it would just be all water.
You could dry out the paper by getting all the water molecules out of it, but how do you dry out water?
I guess this is really more of a semantics issue lol
you cant dry out water… because it is wet.
if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, its probably a duck. and water feels wet.
if water is considered not wet because it only makes other things wet, then why is wet paper considered wet, since, by the same logic, it only makes other things wet.
The paper is the other thing. I don’t understand the question.
‘Wet’ is a concept ancestor people came up with to describe how their towels were sometimes squishy and sometimes weren’t. I don’t think they knew what molecules were.
Knowing that your clothes are soaked in water is useful, but knowing that a river is soaked in… river, isn’t. So, that part of the definition just doesn’t develop.
But also, like you’re saying, ‘wet’ is a feeling. Dipping your hand in a pot or squeezing a sponge feel similarly, so… aren’t they both wet?
So, which is it? Wet or not?
Whatever is socially expedient, I really don’t care. Water feels wet is good enough for me.
true. really makes you think what all this fussing is about, when we could appreciate water for being water