Consider the TRS R consisting of the rewrite rules 1: f(a,x) -> g(a,x) 2: g(a,x) -> f(b,x) 3: f(a,x) -> f(b,x) There are 3 dependency pairs: 4: F(a,x) -> G(a,x) 5: G(a,x) -> F(b,x) 6: F(a,x) -> F(b,x) The approximated dependency graph contains no SCCs and hence the TRS is trivially terminating.