>>24648494
I think what "Show, don't tell" actually means has more to do with inference. It's about supplying hints/data to the reader to allow them to reach some conclusion rather than telling them that conclusion explicitly. It's actually more important to understand why you would do this in the first place, which is for two reasons: one, there's a certain pleasure the reader gets from putting things together (it's a form of "learning" which likely releases dopamine), and two, it's a shortcut for arousing emotions in the reader (because the act of inference seems to aid in arousing emotion).