Rhetorical device? Answer question with example of the answer showing how to find the answer

Question

Imagine the following online dialog.

Question: What is a hyperlink?

Answer: Click on the following, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperlink, or type it into your web browser.

(Thanks to @RegDwigнt♦ for suggesting I use a definition from somewhere other than Google.)

The answer provides an example of a hyperlink that shows the answer to the question of what a hyperlink is.

Is there a specific name for this rhetorical device, where one is shown how to find an answer through an example of the answer?

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My Thoughts

My first thought for the right word was meta. From wiktionary ...

meta

(informal) Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level.

Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.

... but I wonder if there is a more specific rhetorical device that would describe the situation.

Thanks. I'm excited to be part of this site.

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Edit: I was originally motivated to ask this question because of a programming example on another forum. @RobbieGoodwin suggested that the question be limited to English language, so I am including a link to a screenshot of that programming example and my explanation. The question is not about programming, it's about a strategy used for answering a question. (As a new user, I appreciate the suggestion.)

Answer 1

This is an example of the principle of Show, Don't Tell: using demonstrative techniques, rather than blatant or thinly-veiled narration, to establish narrative elements.

The definition above comes from creative writing, but we use it at lot in scientific and technical teaching, too.

Answer 2

There were two answers given as comments which I consider the best. Since the users haven't posted what they wrote as answers, I will note them here and credit the users.

Answer 1: "Indirect Answer"

@Jim gave a sort-of example of the situation I was describing by posting the following link. Note that I say, "sort-of answer," because the link itself isn't indirect, i.e. the link itself isn't an instance of an indirect answer.

https://academic.oup.com/hcr/article-abstract/2/2/172/4637468

There, one may read,

The mechanisms through which an indirect response to a question counts as a direct answer to that question can fruitfully be regarded as a process in which the listener supplies, constructs, infers, or is reminded of such statements as will (together with the indirect response itself) allow the inference of a plausible direct answer.

The abstract to which the link refers adds an idea that is crucial to the situation I described, specifically,

[P]articipants [in a conversation] expect each other to cooperate in making utterances “make sense.”

@Jim really understood the question, because he answered indirectly that my situation was an indirect answer. Clever.

Answer 2: "Meta-Explanation"

@AmI gave the great answer above, i.e. that the appropriate rhetorical device is a meta-explanation. In addition, @AmI used the appropriate and fancy term, enthymematic, which is interesting as regards this question. Here's the definition, which actually redirects to enthymeme:

noun Logic.
a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed.

While I think meta-explanation would be a more-specific name than indirect answer for a rhetorical device such as I explained, I couldn't find any web examples of the former, while I could find them for the latter.

I'm interested to hear what you users of EL&U think. Do you find one of these answers more appropriate for the situation described?