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.
Tioga originated as a lumber mill town. Swords Lee, who represented Grant Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 to 1908, operated a large sawmill there until it closed c. 1917 because of exhaustion of the timber supply.