Through works such as these, Sophists were portrayed as specious or deceptive, hence the modern meaning of the term. The term originated from Greek ÏÏÏÎ¹ÏÎ¼Î±, sophisma, from ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¯Î¶Ï, sophizo I am wise; confer ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¹ÏÏÎ®Ï, sophistÄs, meaning wise-ist, one who does wisdom, and ÏÎ¿ÏÏÏ, sophÃ³s means wise man.
Location of Louisiana in the United States. Tioga is an unincorporated community village in northern Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population in 2010 was 1,965.
The parish is named for 19th-century American statesman Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It was created on February 27, 1871 from lands formerly belonging to Bienville, Bossier, and Claiborne parishes. Webster Parish is part of the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Among the first settlers in Webster Parish was Newett Drew, a native of Virginia, who about 1818 established a grist mill at the former Overton community near Minden.