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  • “It’s when water is touching a surface” blah blah I can easily disprove it by doing this or that. There is a surface of water in a bucket, does that become wet when I pour more water? Then you have to say “solid surfaces,” but furthermore am I “wet” if I enter a body of water fully submerged? No, I’m “under water” and saying I’m wet would be weird. Is the bottom of a bucket “wet” or does it contain water? How much water can something have on it for it to be “wet” or “submerged”? The irony is that by doing this you remove yourself from the process by delegating it to a definition, when according to history, language has mostly been arbitrary and man-made. All of these cases are caught by our arbitrary rules. By arguing water is wet or not without mentioning anthropic usage would make you wrong, by default.