Ockham's Razor

[KipBond]

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it is instructive to observe that it is almost always wrong.

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Ops! In an attempt to be contentious I was being a little wayward in my use of language. What I meant of course was that not that Ockham's razor itself was wrong, but any theory it promotes was, in the sense that in any non trivial scenario the will always be a more accurate theory.

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F=ma?

I think you're forgetting the need for empirical adequacy, which any Occam's Razor pretty much assumes.

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I think you mean that Newton's 2nd law is "empirically adequate", even though it is not as accurate as Einstein's theory of special relativity (because mass & time are dependent upon velocity).

But, the point should be noted that "F=ma" is not as accurate of a model as Einstein's -- even though it is very simple, and still widely used (because it is "good enough"). In this sense, it is not "more likely to be true"; rather, Einstein's more complicated model is "more likely to be true".