Editing Constancy Preference (section)

== Formal Constancy ==

Formal constancy is far stronger preferred among people. This shows in historical preservation commissions in cities, prescriptivist language committees, and most traditions of history - which strive to rigorously and formally encode point-in-time observations.

Most people would prefer that, if we were to find a historical statue, that we keep it in the form that it was found: damage and all. 

For most people, formal constancy is the only form of constancy and so they don't see any need to describe it as formal constancy.