The Aristotelian theme of the identity of the intellect and of the intelligibleis of the utmost importance in Averroes' noetics. This latter, studied in the Latin translations that the Latin philosophers of the thirteenth century scrutinized, rigourously develop this theme so as to preserve the supraempirical and transcendant character of necessary truth that human thinking identifies, thereto sacrificing the individual uniqueness of the intellective operation in its final instance. A Latin Master of the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas, adopts Averroes' insight into the transcendence of the noetic, and confirms it, even as he defends the strictly personal character of human intellection.