The claim that potentiality always requires an external actualizer conflates ontological dependence with logical possibility, a distinction Scotus's formal distinction is precisely designed to preserve.
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logical possibility(Used in the context of evaluating whether Blockhead (a philosophical thought experiment) could exist)
A state of affairs that is not ruled out by the laws of logic; distinct from physical or metaphysical possibility
ontological dependence(Metaphysics)
A relation in which the existence or nature of one thing is accounted for by appeal to other things (e.g., a complex object exists because its parts exist; a set exists because its members exist)