Abstract
This main aim of this paper is to design a method to detect what things can be considered “evident”. The beginning of the study is dedicated to understand how “evidence” was understood in the Aristotelian and Thomist tradition, until the days of the New School of Natural Law. After this historical approach, we take seriously, with a systematically analysis, the notion of evidence and its classes. This help us to discover ten characteristics that can be found in evident things (like ideas, first principles, notions, proofs, etc.). With these characteristics, the way to design a test of evidence is easily open. In Chapter IV we define two kind of tests: a negative one, that shows that some argument is not evident, and a positive test, that indicates that some idea, principle, proof, etc. seems to be evident. We finish this work with some considerations about how this dual-test can work in Law.
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