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Is water wet?
What is water? A collection of molecules with H 2 O as the primary component. What does 'wet' mean to you? Is it an objective property that can be observed and measured or a subjective state dependent on the human experiencing it?
Is water wet? Well let's do an experiment. We put a glass of water on the table and leave it for some time and then come back to it later. What do we observe? The glass is still there (for now), but has the water inside it become something else, like ice perhaps or steam?
You see, we humans understand water to be wet because it is generally perceived as being so. However, that understanding can change over time and with the various circumstances (particularly if you're in a desert). So what does 'wet' really mean? It has no meaning outside of human perception.
The human experience is unique to humans and so our understanding of the world is limited by that. What we think we know about a topic may change based on new information or just because it's hot outside. So in this case, if you were in a glass of cold water, would you consider yourself wet?
What about when water hits your skin or a plant? Are you wet then? Can we say for certain that the plants and animals are not wet but humans are?
Perhaps wetness is a subjective state of matter that can only be understood by humans. Perhaps it does not exist at all and the universe simply is what it is.