Water is, in fact, not wet. Like any liquid, it can only make wet what it touches/soaks. Wetness is a property bestowed upon other things (primarily solid objects) which come into contact with a liquid, but not the liquid itself.
And, no, adding water to water doesn’t result in “wet” water— just more water.
Wetness is not a property which can be applied to a liquid— only a solid which has come in contact with liquid.
Adding liquid to liquid just makes more liquid, not “wet” liquid.
Now, I suppose there could be rare exceptions to this— if an especially viscous liquid were able to produce a surface upon which another, less viscous liquid might make contact with, then that would result in “the surface of X liquid is wetted by Y liquid”— but, even then, the property of wetness only applies to the semi-solid/liquid surface (a property similar to a solid), and not because they, say, mixed. Mixed liquid just form new liquids, compounds, etc. not “wet” ones.
The explanation was in the original comment. I simply clarified due to your misunderstanding.
Look, this is a mix of both logic and linguistics (which isn’t always logical). Even if it doesn’t make sense to you, this is how it is. I suggest that you accept it, however, if you refuse to accept it, the next logical course of action would be to invent a new word which describes liquids touching liquids. Most would call it “a mixture“, but people like you are often unsatisfied with anything you don’t make up yourselves.
I look forward to hearing what new word you may come up with.
To repeat: I already gave a well-defined reason in my initial comment. It’s your choice whether or not to accept it.
I suppose being overly contrarian and argumentative might entertain you, but I’m not going to indulge such childishness (or, perhaps, ignorance) further.
Water is, in fact, not wet. Like any liquid, it can only make wet what it touches/soaks. Wetness is a property bestowed upon other things (primarily solid objects) which come into contact with a liquid, but not the liquid itself.
And, no, adding water to water doesn’t result in “wet” water- just more water.
This is just an assertion that wetness is a property only bestowed on solids. There is no reason given for this, and I have no basis to believe that it is true based on the aforementioned linguistics.
I refer you to the top comment: a very common English expression that “water is wet.”
Harris accuses water of being wet.
Water is, in fact, not wet. Like any liquid, it can only make wet what it touches/soaks. Wetness is a property bestowed upon other things (primarily solid objects) which come into contact with a liquid, but not the liquid itself.
And, no, adding water to water doesn’t result in “wet” water— just more water.
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Stop playing politics with water
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Wrong!
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Also, dirt isn’t dirty.
Correct.
This might make for a good allegory for how water isn’t wet. Strange that I hadn’t considered this before, but thanks for bringing it up!
Why doesn’t “wet” count if the liquid is in contact with other liquid molecules?
Sounds like special pleading to me.
Wetness is not a property which can be applied to a liquid— only a solid which has come in contact with liquid.
Adding liquid to liquid just makes more liquid, not “wet” liquid.
Now, I suppose there could be rare exceptions to this— if an especially viscous liquid were able to produce a surface upon which another, less viscous liquid might make contact with, then that would result in “the surface of X liquid is wetted by Y liquid”— but, even then, the property of wetness only applies to the semi-solid/liquid surface (a property similar to a solid), and not because they, say, mixed. Mixed liquid just form new liquids, compounds, etc. not “wet” ones.
That’s not a reason though, that’s just reasserting the premise.
The explanation was in the original comment. I simply clarified due to your misunderstanding.
Look, this is a mix of both logic and linguistics (which isn’t always logical). Even if it doesn’t make sense to you, this is how it is. I suggest that you accept it, however, if you refuse to accept it, the next logical course of action would be to invent a new word which describes liquids touching liquids. Most would call it “a mixture“, but people like you are often unsatisfied with anything you don’t make up yourselves.
I look forward to hearing what new word you may come up with.
“That’s just how it is” isn’t a reason either.
To repeat: I already gave a well-defined reason in my initial comment. It’s your choice whether or not to accept it.
I suppose being overly contrarian and argumentative might entertain you, but I’m not going to indulge such childishness (or, perhaps, ignorance) further.
This is just an assertion that wetness is a property only bestowed on solids. There is no reason given for this, and I have no basis to believe that it is true based on the aforementioned linguistics.
I refer you to the top comment: a very common English expression that “water is wet.”