Quotations.
I use so many quotations because I know you trust established philosophers more than you trust me. Thus I borrow their status which you readers have constructed over the years to lend credibility to my work.
When I use so many quotations, is Barthe and Foucault then my co-author? ìAfterall, Galileo is indirectly responsible for the texts of those who mechanically applied the laws he formulated.î