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Well, the wonders of grammar allow us to not be confused about the meaning here.
"A foundation establishment" is not referencing anything in specific. To assume it is would be a baseless addition to the statement.
"could" outright makes the statement a supposition. If x is done, y would happen. Again, this makes the feat not referring to any specific person even more obvious.
"spend an entire lifetime flying" directly states that they do that while flying. Whether an FE could - and short of mental doubts they have no physical limitations that would make them unable to fly at a qi cons speed - doesn't matter because this is made to describe how difficult something it. Terling someone "you could spend the entire day punching that wall, it still won't break" doesn't mean that now the person has the stamina, pain tolerance and will to do it. It just means that if they did, it would still fail.
The only way this statement wouldn't work would be to assume the one who said it was wrong. And, that too would be a baseless assumption.
"A foundation establishment" is not referencing anything in specific. To assume it is would be a baseless addition to the statement.
"could" outright makes the statement a supposition. If x is done, y would happen. Again, this makes the feat not referring to any specific person even more obvious.
"spend an entire lifetime flying" directly states that they do that while flying. Whether an FE could - and short of mental doubts they have no physical limitations that would make them unable to fly at a qi cons speed - doesn't matter because this is made to describe how difficult something it. Terling someone "you could spend the entire day punching that wall, it still won't break" doesn't mean that now the person has the stamina, pain tolerance and will to do it. It just means that if they did, it would still fail.
The only way this statement wouldn't work would be to assume the one who said it was wrong. And, that too would be a baseless assumption.
