Prompt #4

Red-Tinted Glasses

In Sophie's World philosophers like Descartes are referred to, saying that the human senses cannot be trusted.  How humans feel things might not be how that object really feels like.  The human eyes might lie and perceive things in a different way than they really are.
In Kant's chapter, a pair of red-tinted glasses are mentioned.  Sophie puts on the glasses and everything in her field of vision turns a shade of red.  Alberto explains that even if she saw the world in a shade of red her entire life that the world would still not be truly red and says that there might even be a veil over what the human eye sees even without the red-tinted glasses.  Alberto uses the experiment to explain how even though a person may have seen millions upon millions of black crows, there still may be a white crow among the millions that exist.
The experiment with the red-tinted glasses could be applied to my life as well as anyone else's.  In the past, whenever a problem comes up I always think that there is only one solution to the problem and no other one exists.  Just like the crows however,  I had never looked for a different solution, nor had I ever looked at the problem from a different perspective.  Now I can look at things from a different angle and solve them easier than before.  I can think of multiple different ways that a person could solve the same problem.  I can now see varying ways to fix a single problem and choose the best choice.
Because of the red-tinted glasses experiment, people today try to solve problems from different angles.  Just because it seems like there is only one solution to a problem, if one just looks at the problem from a different perspective, it could be possible to find a completely different solution to the complication.