WHAT DOES "QUINEAN MEAN? ITThe degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system.. simplicity, plausibility and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. a measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems ( Fodor,1983,pp.107-108).WHAT DOES “QUINEAN” MEAN?  [T]he degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system … simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems. (Fodor, 1983, pp. 107–108)