平庸原理是一种科学哲学观念，指出人类或者地球在宇宙中不存在任何特殊地位或重要性。这是一种哥白尼的理论。不管是由启发法得出的地球所在的位置，还是根据哲学原理阐述人类的地位，都能得出这种结论，此外还有下列论据：

The mediocrity principle is the philosophical notion that "if an item is drawn at random from one of several sets or categories, it's likelier to come from the most numerous category than from any one of the less numerous categories". The principle has been taken to suggest that there is nothing very unusual about the evolution of the Solar System, Earth's history, the evolution of biological complexity, human evolution, or any one nation. It is a heuristic in the vein of the Copernican principle, and is sometimes used as a philosophical statement about the place of humanity. The idea is to assume mediocrity, rather than starting with the assumption that a phenomenon is special, privileged, exceptional, or even superior.