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@AnthoDerv I don't think it's a rule so much as a question of style. Some users of English are not fans of 'that that', for various reasons. (In my case, it's usually a concern about inelegance.) Can you recast the sentence to avoid 'that that'? The second 'that' seems likely to be a deictic pronoun (basically, you're pointing at something) so the simplest way of recasting the sentence would be to replace the second 'that' with the thing to which it refers. Of course, doing so may result in even greater inelegance, thus rendering 'that that' the lesser of two evils, but it would be unusual for there to be only two possible ways of expressing your idea, so keep trying.