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