Is water wet?

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

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Water isn't wet—wetness is what *water creates*. You're confusing the substance with the property it produces. Water makes other things wet through adhesion and absorption, but water itself? It's simply H2O molecules. They don't cling to each other in that same way they cling to other surfaces. Think about it logically. Wetness means being covered or saturated by liquid. But water can't be saturated *by itself*—that's circular reasoning. A puddle isn't wet; it's just water. The ground beneath it becomes wet when water adheres to it. You've got cause and effect backwards. So where's your rebuttal? Can you actually define what makes water wet without just saying "water makes things wet"?