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Despite the separation of " I " from the " It " and " Thou " in this very sentence describing the relationship, Buber's two notions of " I " require attachment to a word partner.

Despite our splitting of these individual terms for the purposes of analysis, there is to Buber's mind either an " I-Thou " or an " I-It " relationship.

Every sentence man uses with I, refers to the two pairs: I-Thou and I-It.

This instance is also interchangeable with Thou and It which would refer to I.

It is bounded by others and It can only exist through this attachment because for every object there is another object.

Thou on the other hand, has no limitations.

When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing or has nothing which means that Thou is abstract.

The speaker yet “ takes his stand in relation ”.