Red-tinted glasses

Red tinted glasses in the literal sense are glasses which filter out all colors except for red so that when people wear them, everything they see is only red.

In my opinion, When Knox used the metaphor of the red-tinted glasses, what he was referring to was the fact that people of wear the glasses will only see everything in red and not in blue or green, In other words, what Know attempted to show was the fact that the red tinted glasses limit our perception of everything which happens in the world so when we have the red tinted glasses on, our senses tell us that the world is only red and nothing else. Likewise, although Knox used the example of the red-tinted glasses, we can relate this to anything in the world and make a generalization that all our thoughts are limited to only the things out sense can interpret.

Everyone sees things differently. What the metaphor is trying to exemplify is the fact that because most people are wearing the red-tinted glasses, they can basically only see things which are red. Similarly, in the real world, people can only see what their senses are telling them to so their understanding is limited to what their senses can show

We can say that everyone in the world is born with a pair of these glasses, however, what the glasses will end up like (what it ends up letting through and what it ends up blocking) is determined by how people are brought up and their environment. It is because of this, although wearing the glasses will probably make you an empiricist because you base all your thoughts on the interpretations of your senses, however, because people are brought up differently, some people (rationalists) will be able to think outside of what their senses tell them to see more than just red.

I think that the metaphor used can relate to our lives. For example, if someone is raised with a normal and typical upbringing and therefore was not taught much about the environment, it is likely that they will grow up not being aware of the problems facing the world this day relating to the environment. It is fair to say that that person, whether it is a boy or a girl, has been made to wear the red-tinted glasses so that they can only see the things that their senses are interpreting. They see trees and they see fields, but yet, they do not see that problems like global warming or deforestation persist in the world. It takes experiences and outside knowledge to gain understanding of these issues.