 The lack of ideas that could exclude or offset false conclusions carries another epistemic danger, and contributes to the loss of our “power” to think in yet another way: any ideas we have failed to exclude lie in the mind ready to be combined with any adequate ideas we’ve managed to secure, thereby undermining the epistemic good that the latter bring with them. For example, if we have not yet excluded the ideas of divine goodness or divine purposiveness from our minds (see E1app), we can easily “join” such inadequate ideas to the concept God.