A continuant that inheres in or is borne by other entities. Every instance of A requires some specific instance of B which must always be the same.

b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])