 Finally, once again, the fact that no common notion on its own can be a cause of falsity doesn’t mean that we cannot put common notions, of either kind, to bad use: we can still “join” adequate ideas to ideas of more dubious value, producing more complex inadequate representations (cf. 3.2.2). Hence even if we necessarily adequately conceive of God as a thinking thing, we still are in danger of joining this adequate idea to that of a benign or vengeful ruler as the referent of the name God.