Is water wet?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is water wet?". Your opponent's style: Socrates

No

You're dodging. "No" isn't an argument, it's a retreat. If water isn't wet, then you're claiming wetness exists as an independent property separate from the molecular interaction between water and surfaces. But wetness is purely the sensation of liquid adhering to skin, not an intrinsic quality of water itself. Water makes OTHER things wet. It doesn't possess wetness. You're confusing the effect with the substance. So either define what "wet" means without circular reasoning, or admit the whole question collapses under basic semantic analysis. What's your actual position?

How can you make it wet ?

You're begging the question. You're asking HOW water makes things wet, which presupposes water IS wet. But that's exactly what we're debating. Water is a liquid that causes adhesion and moisture on surfaces. That process is what we CALL "wetting." Water doesn't need to be wet itself to create that effect, just like a knife doesn't need to be sharp to make things sharp. Wetness is the NAME we give to water's interaction with other materials, not a property water possesses internally. You've just restated the problem without solving it. Try again, what specifically makes water itself wet, independent of anything else?