Fair enough, and I recognize the squishiness. (I’m also trying, unartfully, to apply what I learned about rhetoric from the rhetorician in the Veritas Forum video I posted in the other thread.)
At the same time, upon hearing Neil deGrasse Tyson say those words and knowing some of his other comments about philosophy and other non-science disciplines, an inference to some flavor of scientism is understandable even if he did not intend or explicitly state such a view.