First published in English in1966, The True and The Evident is a translation of Franz Brentano's posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz, edited by Oscsar Kraus. The book includes Brentano's influential lecture, a variety of essays, drawn from the immense wealth of Brentano's unpublished material, and letters.

Part 1: The Earlier View 1. On the Concept of Truth 2. Being in the Sense of the True 3. Descartes' Classification of Mental Phenomena 4. WindelBand's Error with Respect to the Classification of Mental Phenomena 5. Critique of Sigwart's Theory of the Existential and the Negative Judgement 6. On the Evident: Critique of Descartes and Sigwart Part 2: Transition to the Later View 1. Grammatical Abstracta as Linguistic Fictions 2. The Equivocal use of the Term 'Existent 3. Language Part 3. The Later View as Set Forth in Letters 1. On the so-called 'Immanent or Intentional Object' 2. Ens Rationis and Ens Irreale 3. Oppostion to the So-called Contents of Judgement, Propositions, Objectives, States of Affairs Part 4. The Later View as Set forth in Essays 1. On the Existence of Contents and the Doctrine of the Adequatio Rei et Intellectus 2. On the Meaning of "Veritas est Adequatio Rei et Intellectus." 3. On the Thesis: "Veritas est Adequatio Rei et Intellectus." 4. Reflections on the Theory of the Evident 5 The Evident 6. On the Evident