Dough is not "sticky"; that is your subjective experience of the thing you subjectively experience as "dough". Whiskey is not alcoholic, it contains alcohol in

Dough is not "sticky"; that is your subjective experience of the thing you subjectively experience as "dough". Whiskey is not alcoholic, it contains alcohol in addition to other components. These distinctions are borne entirely of a human's interpretation of the world. These things are not in any sense "whole and separate objects" until a human determines what is a "whole object". This is necessarily subjective and thus out of scope. Intuition fails here because intuition is necessarily a human reflex. We are trapped in our bodies and the historical context of our species's evolution, which means we interpret certain things in ways that are advantageous to us and our society. It's to our benefit to conceptualize whole objects because it is a cognitive shortcut to do so, which saves on precious energy, regardless of how physics dictates the arrangement of atoms.