One of the primary tasks in building a quantum theory of gravity is discovering how to save spatiotemporal phenomena using a theory which, putatively, does not include spacetime. Some have taken this task a step further and argue for the actual emergence of spacetime from a non-spatiotemporal ontology in the low-energy regime. In this paper, it is argued that the account of spacetime emergence presented in Huggett and Wüthrich (2013) and then assumed in Baron (2019), Crowther (2016), Wüthrich (2017), and Wüthrich and Lam (2018) fails to accomplish the task to which it is set. There is a prima facie contradiction between the scale-independent ontology of spacetime in GR and the scale-dependent account of emergence proposed by this literature. One can avoid this contradiction but only at the cost of changing the target of emergence and by endorsing a perspectival theory of ontology – a view I call “ontic-perspectivism”. Though this paper explicitly addresses spacetime emergence, many of the following arguments are applicable to other accounts where objects of ontology, or their properties, are claimed to emerge in the low-energy regime.

建立量子引力理论的主要任务之一是发现如何使用一种理论来拯救时空现象，该理论假定不包括时空。一些人将这项任务更进一步，并主张时空从低能量体系中的非时空本体中实际出现。在本文中，有人认为 Huggett 和 Wüthrich  （2013 年）提出的时空出现说明，然后在 Baron（2019 年）、Crowther（2016 年）、Wüthrich（2017 年）和 Wüthrich 和 Lam（2018 年）中假设未能实现设置它的任务。有一个初步的证据GR中时空的尺度无关本体与该文献提出的尺度依赖的涌现解释之间存在矛盾。人们可以避免这种矛盾，但只能以改变出现的目标和认可本体论的透视理论为代价——我称之为“本体透视主义”的观点。尽管本文明确阐述了时空涌现，但以下许多论点适用于其他说法，其中本体论对象或其属性被认为是在低能状态下出现的。