Buber's description of man's "I-It" way of relating to the world is in agreement with Bergson. He conveys the necessity of this kind of relating by man to his world; and despite its lacks proposes that man prize his analytical ability. Like Bergson, Buber views knowing as a movement from intuition to analysis, and not the other way around. Buber sees knowledge expressed or science created through the knowing "I" transcending itself, recollecting, reflecting on, and experiencing its past "I-Thou" relation as an "It." This is man being conscious of, looking at, himself and that which he has taken in, merged with, made part of himself. This is the time when he mulls over, analyzes, sorts out, compares, contrasts, relates, interprets, gives a name to, and categorizes. The third phase of this methodology is the same as that phase of clinical nursing practice in which the nurse, removed from the nursing arena, replays and reflects on this area and transcribes her angular view of it. In this reflective state the nurse analyzes, considers relationships between components, synthesizes themes or patterns, and then conceptualizes or symbolically interprets a sequential view of this past lived reality. The challenge of communicating a lived nursing reality demands authenticity with the self and rigorous effort in the selection of words, phrases, and precise grammar. Phase IV: Nurse Complementarily Synthesizing Known Others In this phase of the methodology the nurse researcher, the knower, compares and synthesizes multiple known realities. Buber says of comparison: "The act of contrasting, carried out properly and adequately, leads to the grasp of the principle."[18] In this comparison and synthesis the "I" of the researcher assumes the position of the knowing place. The knower, like an interpreter, allows dialogue between the multiple known realities. These realities are unknowable to each other directly. The knower interprets, sorts, and classifies. In the human knowing place discovered differences in similar realities do not compete, one does not negate the other. Each can be true, present, "all-at-once." Differences can make visible the greater realities of each. Desan, the philosopher, says of this kind of synthesis: {74} "... a synthetic view where two or more positions are seen to illuminate and to transfigure one another through their mutual presence."[19] The knower alert to an aspect present in a single reality can question the other reality on this aspect. This aspect may be present in both, more blatant in one than in another. Its forms may be different or modified in each. It may be totally absent in one. Differences found may arouse or bring to consciousness other questions to ask of the data. This oscillating, dialectical process continues throughout reflection on the multiple realities. This indirect dialogue is recorded by the investigator as the complementary synthesis.