Why are Newton’s Laws of Physics called laws and not theories?

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Why are Newton’s Laws of Physics called laws and not theories?

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Like theories, scientific laws describe phenomena that the scientific community has found to be provably true. Generally, laws describe what will happen in a given situation as demonstrable by a mathematical equation, whereas theories describe how the phenomenon happens.

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