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Old 08-03-2007   #23 (permalink)
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Default Re: Water is wet?

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Originally Posted by Rasczak View Post
Dunno, I'm still trying to figure out why I am debating what "wet" means.
I hear rhetorical phrases like "water is wet" a lot, and they are odd sounding to me. Is the statement "water is wet":

(a) always true,
(b) sometimes true, or
(c) never true?

This question similarly applies to statements like "God is good." Same overall problem arises. For some people this statement is a tautology (true by definition). For others it's sometimes true (empirically verified). For others it is false.
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