Mediocrity principle
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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" (Kukla 2009).
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See also
- Abiogenesis
- Copernican principle
- Cosmicism
- Cosmological principle
- Cosmic pluralism
- Deep ecology
- Drake equation
- Exceptionalism
- Neocatastrophism
- Plenitude principle
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Uniformitarianism
- Anthropic principle
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