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Feb. 11, 2016
interstitial \in-ter-STISH-uh l\ adjective
1. pertaining to, situated in, or forming small or narrow spaces or
intervals between things or parts.
2. Anatomy. situated between the cells of a structure or part:
interstitial tissue.
Quotes Philosophy should never have been purified. Rather than being
seen as a problem, âdirty handsâ should have been understood as the
native condition of philosophic thought--present everywhere, often
interstitial, essentially interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary in
nature. Philosophy is a mangle. The philosopherâs hands were never
clean and were never meant to be.
-- Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle, "When Philosophy Lost Its Way,"
New York Times, January 11, 2016 Origin Interstitial derives from the
Latin interstitium meaning "interstice" or "an intervening space." It
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