Not the best analogy; water is famously not wet; it makes a surface wet is the common consensus ; wetness is being a property of a surface
Not the best analogy; water is famously not wet; it makes a surface wet is the common consensus ; wetness is being a property of a surface
No, it is famously a pointless internet debate with no settled answer. There is no scientific definition of what can or can't be wet, saying that wetness only applies to surfaces is just an opinion. It's an entirely linguistic question, and most people would say water is wet. If you want more than descriptivism, the common definition is something like 'containing or being covered with liquid', and I think most people would agree that a mass of water contains water.