 Alvin Plantinga is responsible for a widely-discussed actualist representationist response to this problem. He invokes unactualized individual essences (Plantinga 1974, 2003). Every object is said to have an individual essence. An individual essence of a given object is a property which that object necessarily has and everything else necessarily lacks. Moreover, and this is crucial to the solution of the problem at hand, individual essences are independent of the objects which have them, whether the objects are actual or non-actual. That is, an individual essence can exist without being an individual essence of any existing object. The problematic pronoun ‘it’ in (b) is then said to designate such an individual essence, and the rest of the characterization of the possibility in question is appropriately and systematically reinterpreted. For example, ‘it was burnt’ in (b) is reinterpreted to mean that the individual essence in question is an individual essence of something that was burnt.