On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 05:35:51PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > All facts and truths come with caveats. There is no "non-trivial" thing > that can be considered universally true or false. If one were to say > "Water is wet," a fundamental objective truth, it can be countered as > steam is water and steam is not wet, and ice is water and ice is not wet.
Neither steam nor ice are water; water is liquid dihydrogen monoxide. Steam is gaseous dihydrogen monoxide, and ice is solid dihydrogen monoxide. Besides which, "something that wets" is one of the definitions of wet; both steam and ice will do that. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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