Triangular norms and conorms on [0, 1] as well as on nite chains are characterized by 4 independent properties, namely by the associativity, commutativity, monotonicity and neutral element being one of extremal points of the considered domain (top element for t-norms, bottom element for t-conorms). In the case of [0, 1] domain, earlier results of Mostert and Shields on I-semigroups can be used to relax the latest three properties signi cantly, once the continuity of the underlying t-norm or t-conorm is considered. The aim of this short note is to show a similar result for nite chains, we signi cantly relax 3 basic properties of t-norms and t-conorms (up to the associativity) when the divisibility of a t-norm or of a t-conorm is considered.