The meaning of 'meet'

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Grice considers (PPQ, vol. 67, p. 8)

a 'boring ascent':

'meet' dyadic: Ayer met with Carnap.

'meet' tridic: Ayer met with Carnap and Quine.

'meet' tetradic: Ayer met with Carnap and Quine and Witters.

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Grice symbolises this as:

----- " ... met ..."

versus

----- " ... met ... and ... "

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This surely does not make 'meet' ambiguous. The ontology remains the same:

"The meeting might be a single item (relation or action) which holds, variably, [for] n persons" -- "depending on how many people meet".