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I tend to use terms like axioms, theorems, theories, hypotheses, conjectures etc in a rather flippant manner
Underlying all this is the common language of mathematics which is based on the mutual acceptance of certain axioms such as those of Euclidean geometry (similarity, identity, parallelism, etc) with useful theorems (statements that can be rigorously proved as long as the axioms are true) such as Pythagoras.
For example, Newton's laws of motion are the axioms of Newtonian Mechanics and it doesn't matter if Newton's laws were found to be wrong
but the world would be a very different place if they were wrong!
But how would the world look if F = GMm/r2.1?