Are there camels in Hamburg? "And the fellow said," Well, if it's large enough, there ought to be camels there. "And Luria said," But what do my words imply? "And he said," Well, maybe it's a small village, and there's no room for camels. "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.
Y la persona dijo: "Bueno, si es lo suficientemente grande, debe haber camellos ahí". Y Luria dijo: "¿Pero que suponen mis palabras?" Y él dijo: "Bueno, tal vez es una pequeña aldea, y no hay lugar para los camellos". En otras palabras, no estaba dispuesto a tratar este problema sino como un problema concreto, y estaba acostumbrado a encontrar camellos en aldeas y era incapaz de usar lo hipotético, y preguntarse qué pasaría de no haber camellos en Alemania.