Sentence:  [I]t now seems that in the heart of the seventeenth century many writers advanced a vision of inquiry in which truth and falsehood, far from being always and everywhere incompatible, must sometimes be combined in the search for knowledge. To understand this <WSD>pleaching</WSD> of truth and untruth, we need to consider how facets of the baroque interact. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (pleach): an act of entwining or interweaving.