Projection has been extensively used as a diagnostic for presupposition, but many utterance classes generate projection even if they do not have standard features of presupposition. The essential property of all projective meanings is that they are not-at-issue, characterized as a connection to the question under discussion. Tonhauser et al.(2013) propose to classify projective content based on two criteria: (i) whether they are subject to the strong contextual felicity (SCF) constraint, i.e., whether they must have been part of the interlocutors’ common ground prior to the utterance, and (ii) whether they have the obligatory local effect (OLE), i.e., whether their projection is necessarily filtered by a belief predicate. Instead of OLE, I propose the independence as a better criterion: a projective content p of a sentence S is independent from the at-issue content of S iff p's truth or falsity has no effect on the at-issue content of S. The Potts’ CIs share with the prejacent of only and the polar implications of approximatives the feature of logical independence from the at-issue content. In addition, it seems sensible to assume that projective meanings and their classifying criteria display a gradience, with some projecting much more than others.