  In one respect the Description Theory is an immense improvement over the Proper Name Theory: it deals with no more than a finite set of basic names, thus, potentially accommodating (BQ5). In other respects, however, the theory is, by a wide consensus, not much of an improvement over the Proper Name Theory. At the basic level, the theory still treats quotations as names. So, at that level, it inherits many of the problems confronting the simpler Proper Name Theory. Some of the more obvious objections are these (again we mention only some of the most obvious ones here since the theory is not central to contemporary discussions):