In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical, to ask himself what if there were no camels in Germany.
Med andre ord, var han uvillig til at behandle dette som andet end et konkret problem, og han var vant til at der var kameler i landsbyer, og han var helt ude af stand til at bruge det hypotetiske, til at spørge sig selv, hvad nu hvis der ikke er nogen kameler i Tyskland.