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definition claim

Joscha Bach says wetness is defined within a universe by systems that produce it, and a computer game can implement such a function so that something is wet in some sense.

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“Wetness is a property that is constrained to a universe that has eight, uh, s- systems that have the function of making you wet. If this function is being implemented, like in many computer games, you can get wet for some definition of wet, right?”
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