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There were protesters from within Cambridge philosophy faculty, but mostly the letter signatories were from other institutions from the US and UK, a circumstance that some condemned as an attack to the academic freedom of Cambridge scholars.

Eighteen protesters from other institutions, including Willard Van Orman Quine, David Armstrong, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and René Thom, sent a letter to Cambridge claiming that Derrida's work " does not meet accepted standards of clarity and rigor " and describing Derrida's philosophy as being composed of " tricks and gimmicks similar to those of the Dadaists.

" The letter concluded that: